Eel Lime
Artist: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Image Code: PP47
- Date of work: April 15th 1948
- Medium: Heliogravure Print
- Suite: Antibes
- Printed by: Draeger Frères
- Paper: Papiers Grillet et Feau
About the work
In the summer of 1945 Picasso went down to the French Riviera with his lover Francois Gilot, depressed and unable to work.
While the Second World War was over the destruction and futility o...show more
About the artist
Pablo Picasso is the most famous, versatile, prolific and influential artist of the 20th Century. It was something that he wasn’t shy in acknowledging: When he was a child Picasso’s mother said to him: “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope. ” To which he later said: “Instead, I was a painter and became Picasso. ” Although he lived the majority of his adult years in France, Picasso was a Spaniard by birth, hailing from the town of Malaga in Andalusia. His father was an Artist in his own right earning a living painting birds and other game animals. Picasso was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer and writer. His work matured from the naturalism of his childhood through Cubism, Surrealism and beyo ...show more
About the process
Heliogravure
Heliogravure or photogravure, is a printmaking process that allows for a photo-like reproduction to be made of an original artwork.
Because of its extremely high quality...show more
one image available
50cm x 45cm / 20" x 18"
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