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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
PABLO PICASSO Exposition 55 Vallauris.
Linoleum cut printed in reddish brown on cream wove paper, 1955. 660x530 mm; 26x20 7/8 inches, full margins. Edition of 600. Printed by Arnéra, Vallauris. Published by the Association des Potiers, Vallauris. A very good impression of this scarce, early linoluem cut.
We have found only 13 other impressions at auction in the past 25 years.
Picasso's earliest foray into color linoleum cut printmaking coincided with his activity at the Madoura pottery workshop, where in the late 1940s/early 1950s he began to make ceramics with the master potters Georges and Suzanne Ramié and their assistants. From 1951 to 1955, Picasso created 8 different posters (these comprise 8 of his 11 earliest linoleum cuts) to announce exhibitions of his pottery and related art at Vallauris. Bloch 1268; Baer 1032.
