Vintage 1950 Picasso “The Fireplace” Lithograph Art Print

Vintage 1950 hand tipped in lithograph of Picasso’s The Fireplace (1921).

Commentary on the work circa 1950:

The sobriety of gouache painting has always appealed to Picasso. Colour never has for him the intrinsic emotional quality that it had for such painters as van Gogh. Once, as he has told us, chancing to have no blue ready on his palette, he coolly replaced it by red. The play of lines and forms can give him all he needs. In almost every one of his works we find some trouvaille peculiar to it; thus here the planes are framed in dotted lines, which go admirably with gouache technique and suggest an unusual sort of translucency.

7 3/8” x 10 1/2” lithograph hand tipped in on thick 9 7/8 x 13 1/2” paper.