1974 Pablo Picasso Collotype "Corrida"

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Original collotype print after the earlier Pablo Picasso lithograph, from the limited edition portfolio "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art". … Read more Original collotype print after the earlier Pablo Picasso lithograph, from the limited edition portfolio "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art". Printed and published by Triton Press, Inc., New York in 1974. Sheet size: 14 x 17 inches; print size: 10 x 13-1/2 inches. Signed in stone lower right, on Brandywine Cover paper. Shown on a black background. Mint condition new old stock from our immaculate copy of "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art".

Collotype is a printing process invented in the mid-19th century famous for producing extremely fine detail and rich tonal gradation, using photograph negatives to create printing plates. Widely used for art books, postcards, and fine art reproductions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, today collotype is commercially uncommon, but still practiced by a few master printers. Collotype prints are admired by photographers, printmakers, and collectors for its unmatched subtlety.

Having done many crayon sketches of the subject, the artist chose to produce a print which was modelled after one of his most successful drawings. Here, with a few colors in fine unbroken lines, Picasso has managed to evoke the movement, the excitement and the temper of the Spanish bull ring. Few other artist of our time has been capable of such a tour de force. See less