Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
L’Atelier du Vieux Peintre. 1954.
Lithograph.
Signed and numbered. One of 50 copies. On Arches wove paper (with the watermark). 33.2 x 53.5 cm (13 x 21 in). Sheet: 50,3 x 65,4 cm (19,80 x 25,74 in).
[MH].
• Picasso’s prints represent a significant part of his overall oeuvre in terms of their scope, technical diversity, and expressive power.
• A vibrantly colored copy of this painterly composition.
• Picasso’s inexhaustible creativity was honored in the 1971 retrospective at the Grande Galerie of the Musée du Louvre—a rare honor bestowed during his lifetime.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Berlin (ca. 1970, family-owned ever since).

LITERATURE: Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso. Catalogue de l’œuvre gravé et lithographié 1904-1967, vol. I Bern 1984, CR no. 760 (illustrated).

In good condition. Slightly discolored around the mat cutout, slightly more so in the image area. With very few, barely noticeable creases.