Organized by Townsend Art Advisory LLC, Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection examines the printmaking output of legendary Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in the last years of his life. The exhibition highlights three prints and their various proofs—Portrait of a Young Woman after Cranach the Younger II, Pique II, and Bacchanal with Kid Goat and Onlooker—that illustrate Picasso’s unique printmaking process as well as his innovative contributions to the practice itself. The artist’s prints also demonstrate his enduring interest in themes that dominated his long and prolific career: his Spanish heritage, mythology and the Classical past, and the work of European Old Masters.
—
Image Credit: Pablo Picasso, Portrait of a Young Woman after Cranach the Younger II (trial proof of all five blocks), 1958, linocut. Geiser Baer 1053Bi. Private Collection. © 2024 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
