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PABLO PICASSO (after) Jacqueline accroupi.
Color lithograph on heavy wove Arches paper, 1966. 625x430 mm; 24 1/2x16 3/4 inches (sheet), wide (full ?) margins. Artist's proof, before the poster edition with text. Signed and dedicated "pour Blaise Gautier" in pencil, lower right. Arches watermark. Published by the Minèstre de Culture, Paris.
This was used as the poster to announce the major retrospective exhibition of Picasso's work on the occasion of his 85th birthday in 1966 at the Grand Palais--Petit Palais, Bibliothèque National, Paris. The dedicatee, Blaise Gautier, was one of the founders of the Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, and he became its first director from 1968-78. Czwiklitzer 250.
