Venus et l'amour voleur de miel (d'après Lucas Cranach l'Ancien)

This vibrant colored lithograph demonstrates Picasso's ongoing dialogue with art history, reinterpreting Lucas Cranach the Elder's classical composition of Venus and Cupid with the Spanish master's characteristic modernist sensibility. Created around 1957 and printed by the renowned Parisian workshop Mourlot, the work exemplifies the artist's late period engagement with printmaking as a vehicle for both homage and artistic reinvention. The generous sheet size and full margins showcase Picasso's confident handling of the lithographic medium in color, capturing a playful narrative of the theft of honeycomb rendered through his distinctly expressive formal language.