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PABLO PICASSO (Spanish, 1881-1973). Collage with Stick Figures-Journal au profil, 1964. Rinsed linocut with India ink wa...
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PABLO PICASSO (Spanish, 1881-1973)Collage with Stick Figures-Journal au profil, 1964
Rinsed linocut with India ink wash
29-1/2 x 24-3/8 inches (75 x 62 cm) sheet
No edition, only one trial proof is known
Signed in red pencil left of bottom center
Dated in India ink verso
EXHIBITED:
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, "Picasso: Painted Linos," March-May 9, 1970.
LITERATURE:
Picasso: Painted Linos, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, March-May 9, 1970, no. 42, illus.;
The Complete Linoleum Cuts, 1939-1968 in Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885-1973, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, 2012, no. L-178, illus.;
Related letterpress engraving in B. Baer, Picasso Peintre-Graveur, Tome V, Catalogue Raisonne de l'Oeuvre Grave et des Monotypes, 1959-1965, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland, 1989, p. 550, no. 1367
From 1939-68, the ever-experimental Picasso expanded his printmaking to include linocuts, like woodcutting, a technique in which a gouge cuts away the negative spaces of a linoleum block, leaving a design in relief, which is then inked and printed. Picasso's almost 200 linocuts are whimsical, energized, and gestural, covering a variety of themes, such as bullfights, still lifes, the artist and his model, dancers and musicians, nudes, lovers, portraits, and interpretations of Old Master paintings. Beginning in 1951, he also employed linocut for a series of posters for the annual pottery exhibition in Vallauris. Apart from these posters, the linocuts were published by Galerie Louise Leiris in Paris, under the supervision of Picasso's longtime dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.
In 1963, toward the end of his career, Picasso invented a new technique for his linocuts, the rinsing method, in order to create a handmade appearance:
He first prints the linoleum block [on white paper] in a cream white ink that repels water. He then rinses the print in a water based India ink, which is absorbed by the non-printed areas of the sheet. He then washes the ink from the sheet, thus removing it from the areas that had been printed in the cream white ink (A. Hyman, The Complete Linoleum Cuts, 1939-1968 in Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885-1973, San Francisco, 2012, preface).
Exemplifying the rinsed linocut, the 1964 Journal au profil, also known as Collage with Stick Figures, is unique for several reasons. As a depiction of a page of advertisements from the Nice newspaper Patriote, it is Picasso's only linocut that plays with the theme of a journal. As such, it references his early synthetic Cubist collages coupling newspaper print with everyday objects. In addition, Journal au profil features mixed media and is therefore a variation of the traditional linocut. For the base print, Picasso used a letterpress engraving with inset linocut images of bulls and figures that he had made the previous year, Profil, corrida, faune, et centaure poursuivant une baigneuse. For the final product, he painted the bowl and pipe on top of this newspaper engraving, rinsed the sheet with India ink, and selectively washed off the ink to reveal underlying passages of white. The resulting effect is layered and complex, simultaneously evoking painting, printmaking and collage.
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