Pablo Picasso

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2 Pablo Picasso The world s favourite artist is also the most collected. The market for works by Picasso is highly liquid, buoyant and can be extremely rewarding. His desire to push the boundaries of printmaking produced many of the worlds most historically important and technically accomplished works. Picasso s graphic oeuvre spans more than seven decades, from 1899 to His published prints total approximately 2000 different images pulled from metal, stone, wood, linoleum and celluloid. His unpublished prints, perhaps 200 more, have yet to be exactly counted. Picasso s prints demonstrate his intuitive and characteristic ability to recognize and exploit the possibilities inherent in any medium in which he chose to work. Once he had mastered the traditional methods of a print medium, like etching on metal, Picasso usually experimented further, pursuing, for example, scarcely known intaglio techniques such as sugar-lift aquatint. The printed graphic work of Picasso shows a clearly defined succession of periods in which certain techniques predominated. Picasso has astonished the ablest printmakers again and again. It is not only that he mastered the difficulties of new techniques with playful ease; he soon went on to obtain results that had hitherto been deemed impossible. A virtuoso craftsman in engraving, etching, lithography and linocut, he explored their secrets with patience and love and elicits from each medium the very subtlest effects the medium allows. It is hardly surprising that five, ten or even thirty states were sometimes necessary before a masterpiece emerged from his hands. We specialise in supplying only the finest works from Pablo Picasso s graphic oeuvre; and offer the discerning investor works of the utmost rarity and investment potential.

3 Picasso and Mourlot Mourlot Studios was a commercial print shop founded in 1852 by the Mourlot family and located in Paris, France. During the 1920s, Fernand Mourlot converted one of the locations into a studio dedicated to printing fine art lithography. One of the most important contributions of the Mourlot Studio was to be the fine art poster, and Mourlot became the place where posters were prepared and produced as works of art in their own right. In 1945, Pablo Picasso chose the now world renowned Mourlot studio for his return to the lithographic medium. Set up in a corner of the shop, the lithograph studio would become his home for several months at a time. Between 1945 and 1969, Picasso created over four hundred lithographs at Mourlot. This collaboration would break new ground in the lithographic process and lend a new dimension to Picasso's work. Fernand Mourlot A very brief list of great masters that created their works at Mourlot includes: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, Alexander Calder, Francis Bacon, Roy Lichtenstein, Jacques Villon, Henry Moore, Fernand Léger, Alberto Giacometti and many more.

4 Saltimbanque s Family Rental available

5 Saltimbanque s Family. Lithograph printed in black, 1954 Bloch 753; Mourlot 249, only state Signed in ink and numbered in pencil. An impression from the edition of 50. Image Size : 50 x 64cm (19.7 x 25.2in) Sheet Size : 50 x 65.6cm (19.7 x 25.8in) AU$ 72,000 Inclusive of GST