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PABLO PICASSO(1881-1973)Nature morte sous la Lampe, 1962
23 March 2021, 15:00 GMT
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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Nature morte sous la Lampe, 1962
signed in pencil
linocut in colours, on Arches wove paper
75 x 62cm (29 1/2 x 24 7/16in).
This work is an artist's proof aside from the edition of 50. Printed by Arnéra, published by Galerie Louise Leiris, 1963
signed in pencil
linocut in colours, on Arches wove paper
75 x 62cm (29 1/2 x 24 7/16in).
This work is an artist's proof aside from the edition of 50. Printed by Arnéra, published by Galerie Louise Leiris, 1963
Footnotes
Provenance
Private Collection, California, United States.
Acquired from the above by the current owner.
Literature
Georges Bloch, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié, Volume I, 1904-1967, Berne, 1968 (Bl.1102).
Geiser & Baer, Picasso Peintre-graveur, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé, Volume V, 1959-1965, Berne, 1989 (B.1313).
''My lighting at night is wonderful. I even prefer it to daylight[...], You should come one day to see how the light picks out every object, how deep, black shadows play around the pictures and are thrown against the beams. You can find it in almost every still life. I painted most of them by night.''
PABLO PICASSO
The genre of still life has a prominent position in Picasso's oeuvre, from
his early Cubist still lifes to the memento mori created during the War
World II period and later in the Post War years.
Nature morte sous la lampe (Still life under the Lamp) is considered
Picasso's masterpiece of colour linocut and is included in every survey
of 20th Century printmaking.The classic composition of this still life follows the tradition of his great
role model Cézanne.
Picasso uses common objects from anywhere: a glass, apples, a
lamp, a plain wood table - the object at its most ordinary. As the artist
expressed it: "I make reference to objects that belong to everybody''.
The composition is constructed in nine stages, beginning with a blank
white background, Picasso cut and printed the single block in each
successive colour, building the image with increasing complexity. This
groundbreaking technique was invented by Picasso and is known as
the 'reduction' method.