Offset color lithograph, 1966. 575x460 mm; 22 3/4x18 1/8 inches, full margins. An hors commerce impression, aside from the edition of 60. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by the Museo Picasso, Barcelona. From the Barcelona Suite. A very good impression with vibrant colors.
Established in Barcelona in 1963, the Museo Picasso's complete collection comprises over 4,200 of Picasso's works in all media from different periods, with particular emphasis on those from his formative years. The museum itself is made up of five Catalan, Gothic style palazzos dating from the 13th and 14th centuries in Barcelona's La Ribera.
The set of 5 signed offset color lithographs, known as the Barcelona Suite, was commissioned in honor of Picasso's 85th birthday. Aside from the large poster edition of 2,000 unsigned impressions with the added text, 60 signed and numbered impressions as well a handful of proof impressions before the text were also published by the Museo Picasso in 1966. Czwiklitzer 234.
