Le Dejeuner sur L’Herbe

Original Colour Linocut, Mougins - 1962, , on velin Arches watermarked paper, in three colours (beige, brown and black), signed by the artist in pencil, with full margins. The edition published.
Size : Image Size: 350 x 267 mms; Sheet Size: 624 x 442 mms
Edition: 36/50
Note: See the work “Les Dejeuners de Picasso ” by Douglas Cooper - the renowned art critic. Cooper’s work describes the illustrious series of drawings, prints and paintings made by Picasso as a hommage to Edouard Manet and his famous painting “Le Dejeuner sur L’Herbe”. This work, now in the Louvre, showed a naked woman having a picnic with men on the grass. Picasso was fascinated by this subject and made a whole series of paintings, prints and drawings relating to it. In more recent times there was a major exhibition on the subject at the Musee D’Orsay in Paris and the exhibition at the National Gallery “Picasso challenging the past” dealt at great length with the subject also. In his art Picasso never depicts the precise scene; rather he makes a series of dramatic transformations of the work which Cooper divides into four phases. This work shows most of the scene from the painting but other Linocuts made at the same time show as one plate a small part of the entire scene.
Printed By: Arnerea Vallauris, France
Published by: Gallerie Louis Leiris, Paris, 1963
Reference: Bloch 1096