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Signed Picasso Prints For Sale
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Pablo Picasso: The Most Important Artist of the 20th Century
Evolution & RevolutionPablo Picasso is the defining figure of 20th century art — relentlessly experimental across painting, sculpture, ceramics and printmaking. Born in Málaga, Spain in 1881, he was a prodigious draughtsman from childhood, studying at the academies of Barcelona and Madrid before moving to Paris in 1904. What followed was one of the most influential artistic careers ever recorded: the Blue and Rose Periods, the invention of Cubism with Georges Braque, the monumental anti-war statement of Guernica (1937), and an unbroken practice of painting, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics that continued until his death in 1973 at the age of 91.
His print catalogue alone spans over 2,400 original works — from his first print made as a teenager in 1899 to his final works produced at 90 years old. He worked across etching, aquatint, drypoint, engraving, lithography and linocut with the mastery of someone who had spent decades continually expanding the possibilities of each medium. His partnership with the Parisian lithography studio Atelier Mourlot — which began in 1945 and produced nearly 400 lithographic prints over two decades — resulted in some of the most recognisable and important images in his catalogue, including the Dove of Peace. In the South of France from the late 1940s, he collaborated with the Madoura pottery studio in Vallauris, producing over 3,500 ceramic works — plates, jugs, tiles and sculptural forms — that are increasingly recognised as a major body of work in their own right.
For collectors, Picasso’s output across print, ceramic and works on paper is comprehensively documented in three essential references: the Bloch catalogue raisonné (Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso: Catalogue de l'Oeuvre Gravé et Lithographié), the authoritative reference for prints; the Ramié catalogue (Georges Ramié, Céramique de Picasso), the definitive record for ceramics; and the Zervos catalogue raisonné (Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso), the comprehensive reference for paintings and works on paper. Any serious Picasso acquisition should be traceable to one of these references. Signed examples command a significant premium, and the distinction between original prints — made directly by Picasso’s hand — and later reproductions or posthumous editions remains fundamental to the market.
Alex Yellop offer original Picasso prints, ceramics and works on paper spanning the artist’s most celebrated periods — from Bloch catalogue lithographs and etchings to Madoura ceramics and late linocuts. Whether acquiring a first Picasso or building an established collection, Picasso’s work continues to hold a central position within the international modern art market.
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Collecting Picasso
PRINTMAKING, EDITIONS & COLLECTING.Picasso’s market is unusually broad, covering original prints, ceramics, drawings and works on paper produced across more than seven decades. From early Cubist prints and Vallauris ceramics to the celebrated late linocuts of his final decades, Picasso’s output moves across radically different mediums, subjects and periods while remaining immediately recognisable as his own.
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Pablo Picasso Articles
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