Born in 1881 in Malaga in Spain, Pablo Picasso was one of the most original, creative and prolific artists of the twentieth century. Although best known for such paintings as Guernica and as the originator of Cubism, Picasso worked in a variety of other media including sculpture, ceramics, murals, theater design, as well as writing plays and poetry. While much has been written about Picasso’s work in these other fields, Picasso’s activity as a poster designer has largely been overlooked and ignored.
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Pablo Picasso is the artistic giant of the twentieth century, and perhaps only Leonardo da Vinci rivals his fame throughout the history of art. In a working life that spanned nearlv eighty years, Picasso painted some of the archetypal images of modern art, including Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and Guernica. But he did more than create individual works of originality and genius. Picasso invented, and inspired others to invent, a whole new vocabulary and way of thinking about art which have shaped the progress of modernism throughout the twentieth century.
Picasso’s fame is indisputable but rests largely on his oil paintings. A lesser-known but crucially important part of Picasso’s oeuvre is his graphic work, in particular his poster designs. From the 1940s to the 1960s Picasso produce hundreds of designs for posters, many advertising exhibitions of his work. They are interesting and important not only for their striking simplicity and bold color, but also because they sum up many of the expressionist ideas he had developed from Guernica onward. Themes and images from his paintings and ceramics such as bulls and goats, faces and the dove of peace recur and give remarkable coherence to this body of work.
Picasso Posters presents a comprehensive panorama of Picasso’s poster art. An illustrated introduction tells the story of Picasso’s long life and career, and sets his poster work in the context of the genre’s history and of his paintings, drawings, and sculpture. Sixty of Picasso’s finest posters are reproduced in large-scale color plates, making Picasso Posters a sumptuous, informative, and muchneeded study of this little-known aspect of the master’s work.
Introduction
Ballets Russes de Diaghilev
Pottery-Flowers-Perfume
Pottery-Flowers-Perfume
Pottery-Flowers-Perfume
Picasso Lithographs for Pierre
Reverdy’s ’The Song of the Dead
Vallauris: L’Homme au Mouton by Picasso
Latin-American Show
Vallauris Exhibition 1951
Vallauris Exhibition 1952
Picasso: 200 Works 1920-1953
The Three Graces
Vallauris Exhibition 1953
Vallauris Exhibition 1954
Prague Spring
Painter with Model Knitting
Bulls in Vallauris 1955
Deucalion and Pyrrha
Vallauris Exhibition 1955
Vallauris Exhibition 1955
Vallauris Exhibition 1955
Minotaur, Drinker, and Women
Painting Exhibition, Vallauris
Vallauris Exhibition 1956
Bulls in Vallauris 1956
Minotaur
Galerie 65, Cannes
Bulls in Vallauris 1957
L’Aveille
Vallauris Exhibition 1957
La Santerelle
Picasso Paintings 1955-56
Dans L’Argile de Picasso
The Dragonfly
Manolo Huguet
Vallauris Ceramics Exhibition
Picasso Ceramics Exhibition
Picasso Ceramics Exhibition
Minotaur
Bulls in Vallauris 1958
The Cat
Vallauris: Ten Years of Ceramics by Picasso
The Doe
Picasso: Ceramics and White Pottery Exhibition
Vallauris Exhibition 1958
The Goldfinch
Round of Friendship
Original Posters by Masters of the Paris School
Women and Goat
Bulls in Vallauris 1959
Picasso: Printed Works
Vallauris Ceramics Exhibition
Peace
Vallauris Exhibition 1960
Bulls in Vallauris 1960
Picasso: Drawings 1959-60
Picasso Drawings
The Toad
Vallauris Exhibition 1961
Gallery Madoura Exhibition
The Circus
Madoura Exhibition Invitation
Bonne Fete’Monsieur Picasso
Alex Maguy Expose Sept Tableaux Majeurs
Still Life under a Lamp
Peace
Cote d’Azur: Picasso
The Butterfly
Vallauris Exhibition 1962
Picasso Linocuts
The Bullfight
Vallauris Exhibition 1963
Picasso’s ’Les Dejeuners: Original Drawings
The Spanish Bull
Picasso: 28 Original Linocut Prints
Vallauris Exhibition 1964
Vallauris Exhibition ’Painting and Light
The Blue Owl
Picasso: 85 Prints
Picasso: 60 Years of Graphic Works
Soneto Burlesco
The Bullfight
Picasso
The Woman at the Window
Picasso Posters
Acknowledgments
