Pab,lo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
Title: Jacqueline aux chevaux flous, en buste
Bust of Jacqueline with flowing hair
Medium: Original Colour Linocut , Mougins - 12/2/1962, , on velin Arches watermarked paper, one block printed on image in black, signed by the artist in pencil. The edition published.
Size : Image Size: 350 x 270 mms; Sheet Size: 621 x 445 mms
Edition: 50 ;There were 2 or more trial proofs and 9 or more artists proofs.
Note: This is a portrait of Jacqueline Roque (1927 - 1986) who Picasso met in 1953 at the pottery when she was 27 years old. He romanced her by drawing a dove on her house in chalk and bringing her one rose a day until she agreed to date him six months later. In 1955, when Picasso's first wife Olga Koklova died, he was free to marry. They married in Vallauris on 2 March 1961. Their marriage lasted 11 years until his death, during which time he created more than 400 portraits of her.
Printed By: Arnerea Vallauris, France
Published by: Gallerie Louis Leiris, Paris, 1963
Reference:
Georges Bloch: “Tomb 1 - Catalogue de l’oeuvre grave et lithographie : Number 1091
Brigitte Baer: Picasso Peintre-Graveur, Tomb V, Catalogue raisoneee de L’oeuvre grave et de monotypes 1959 - 1965 : Number 1295
Alan Wofsy Fine Arts: The Picasso Project “The Complete Linocuts 1939 - 1968” Number L-1114
Karsham 55
Metropolitan Museum Collection (Ex Mr & Mrs Charles Kramer collection) 1985, Number 79
Public Collections: Metropolitan Museum, New York
