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Pablo Picasso — Portraits imaginaire (Imaginary Portraits): one plate
Pablo Picasso

Portraits imaginaire (Imaginary Portraits): one plate

This offset lithograph exemplifies Picasso's mastery of the medium, employing vibrant color and dynamic compositional elements to create a series of imaginary portrait heads rendered in his characteristic cubist and expressionist vocabulary. The work demonstrates the artist's continued experimentation with physiognomy and abstraction, fragmenting and reassembling facial features to explore multiple viewpoints simultaneously. As a print on wove paper in full sheet format, the work reflects Picasso's prolific engagement with lithography, a technique he championed throughout his career for its capacity to translate his innovative pictorial language into multiples for wider distribution.

Medium
Offset lithograph in colors, on wove paper, the full sheet.
Location
Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT

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MODERNISM 1880-1960: Editions & Works on Paper

April 16, 2025

Lot 71

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Pablo Picasso, Portraits imaginaire (Imaginary Portraits): one plate

This offset lithograph exemplifies Picasso's mastery of the medium, employing vibrant color and dynamic compositional elements to create a series of imaginary portrait heads rendered in his characteristic cubist and expressionist vocabulary. The work demonstrates the artist's continued experimentation with physiognomy and abstraction, fragmenting and reassembling facial features to explore multiple viewpoints simultaneously. As a print on wove paper in full sheet format, the work reflects Picasso's prolific engagement with lithography, a technique he championed throughout his career for its capacity to translate his innovative pictorial language into multiples for wider distribution.

Medium
Offset lithograph in colors, on wove paper, the full sheet.
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Surrealism, Print, 20th Century, Cubism, Etching, Imaginative, Experimental, Abstracted figuration, Portrait, Spanish Artist

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Collected by

Richard Caswell, Sebastián In Situ, Jim Arnone, Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Sebastián Naranjo, Benji Stoore, Alex Capecelatro, Saul Beceiro Novo, Andrew P. Cooper, Becky Tompkins