Vintage 1950s Picasso "The Bull's Skull" Art Print

A lovely vintage reproduction of Picasso's The Bull's Skull, 1942. This piece was printed while Picasso was still living.

9.4" x 11.75"

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

Now and then Picasso felt the need to vent his angry resentment at the "mess" men make of life, whose emblem, for them, might be no more than the grinning death mask of some such beast as this. Painted in 1942, a few days after the death of one of Picasso's oldest friends, this work conveys all the horror and desolation of war. His Guernica had done the same five years earlier in a somber harmony of grays and whites sown with wild linework. Now he cried out in raucous colors the impinge on the sharp edges of the skull, whose whiteness only stresses the impression of wanton cruelty it produces.