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Spaightwood Galleries, Inc.
120 Main Street, Upton MA 10568; 800-809-3343
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973): Color
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Most of Picasso's many prints are in black and white (drypoints, engravings, etchings, lift-ground aquatines, and linocuts make up the great majority of his printed oeuvre). Picasso did experiment with color printa, especially in the later part of his career, and we offer a few examples.
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The Dancers (M. 281). Original color lithograph, 1956. 3000 unsigned impressions for Picasso Lithographe III. This lithograph served as the frontispiece to the book. It is one of a long series of lithographs and etchings Picasso has made on this theme, which was particularly important to him from 1963-65. Image size: 320x235mm. Price: $2850.
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Portrait (M. 298, Bl. 837). Original color lithograph, 1957. 4000 impressions for Picasso Peintures 1955-56. A German gallery has been offering an unsigned proof before text of this lithograph for $2000. (Does he know something I don't know about the fate of the edition?) Image size: 166x166mm. Price: $1500.
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L'Atelier Mourlot. Color lithograph, 1964. 1150 impressions for L'Atelier de Mourlot, a 1964 exhibition of works made at Mourlot's workshop held at the Redfern Gallery in London. Picasso produced two lithographs for the catalog, this one and M. 400. We have priced this so inexpensively because the National Gallery of Art printing of the Mourlot catalogue (which preceded the London show) calls this a lithograph after a drawing, although the Redfern Gallery catalogue calls it an original lithograph. Image size: 250x180mm. Price: $750.
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Le picador II (Mourlot 350, Gauss 788, Bloch 1017).. Original 23-color lithograph, 1961. 50 signed & numbered impressions plus an unsigned edition published in Jaime Sabartes' A los toros avec Picasso (Monte Carlo: Editions Andre Sauret, 1961), from which ours comes. Edition size unknown. Picasso was a lifetime fan of bullfights. Our impression dated in the stone. Another unsigned impression of this print was recently offered at Sotheby's for $2300 (plus the auction house commission of about 20%). Image size: 200x260mm. Price: SOLD.
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Les Musiciens. Color pochoir after a painting, 1930. 1250 unsigned impressions for Eugenio d'Ors's Picasso, published in Paris in 1930. Executed with Picasso's consent and under his supervision. The first 50 copies contained an original signed and numbered Picasso lithograph exectued for this book. Image size: 252x187mm. Price: $2275.
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Flowers For UCLA (M. 351, Gauss 791, Roderigo, Picasso in his Posters: Image and Work, 4 vols., 113). Original 7-color lithograph, 1961. 100 signed and numbered impressions before the addition of the text "Bonne fête, Monsieur Picasso," of which there are 500 impressions signed in the stone. Ours is a proof on light-weight wove paper. Image size: 578x452mm; paper size: 648x495mm. Price: SOLD.
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Exposition de Ceramics (M. 314, Gauss 745). Original 3-color lithograph, 1958. 500 impressions signed in the stone for an exhibition of his ceramics at the Maison de la Pensée Française in Paris. This is a variant of M313 / Gauss 744, which was printed in only two colors (lacking the green) and which was also printed in an edition of 500 impressions. There were also 125 impressions printed on slightly larger paper to be sold by the Maison de la Pensée Française. In addition to these two regular editions, there were a few artist's proofs. No signed and numbered edition exists. Image size: 645x475mm. Price: $3250.
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Plante aux Torritos / Plant with bullflies. Mixed media on heavy laid paper watermarked "Ceci est une reproduction. Picasso." Several of the Torritos appear to have been retouched with ink. In the catalogue raisonné of Picasso's Prints, there is a color linogravure titled "Plante aux Toritos" dated 25 Juin 1956-9 Avril 1960 (Bloch 948) on the same subject as our lithograph, which is dated 24-6-1956 VII, indicating that it is the 7th work Picasso did on June 24. I think Picasso did a number of drawings for the linogravure, one of which he chose as the model for the print, and one of which he liked enough that he gave it to be copied by someone in his studio and then be printed by Mourlot, his regular printer (hence the watermark: "Ceci est une reproduction. Picasso." This tells us that Picasso had special paper made so that he could print reproductions with having to worry about whether someone would add a fake signature and pass it off as an original Picasso lithograph.) There are, however, a couple of areas that look as if they had been retouched with ink, which would make this a hand-retouched lithograph after Picasso and hence possibly of some significant value. I have never seen another one of these so I have no way to see if ours is different from others (which would imply that it is not hand-retouching but part of the printing process and that it was what the watermark says it was). Image size: 498x400mm. Price: NFS
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Spaightwood Galleries, Inc.
To purchase, call us at 1-800-809-3343 (508-529-2511 in Upton MA & vicinity) or send an email to sptwd@verizon.net. We accept AmericanExpress, DiscoverCard, MasterCard, and Visa.
Spaightwood Galleries is located at 120 Main St (aka Highway 140) in Upton MA at the corner of Main St and Maple Ave in a rehabilitated Unitarian Church. For directions and visiting information, please call. We are, of course, always available over the web and by telephone (see above for contact information). Click the following for links to past shows and artists. For a visual tour of the gallery, please click here. For information about Andy Weiner and Sonja Hansard-Weiner, please click here. For a list of special offers currently available, see Specials.
Visiting hours: Saturday and Sunday noon to six and other times by arrangement.
Please call to confirm your visit. Browsers and guests are welcome.
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