Picasso from Homage to Picasso (Hommage à Picasso)
Robert Indiana
American, 1928–2018
1974, published 1975
A bold screenprint in which Robert Indiana transforms Picasso’s name, dates, and places into a colorful, typographic medallion that pays playful homage to the artist.
A coin-like roundel of overlapping geometric letters, numbers, and arrows in electric blue, red, yellow, and black spins against a deep brown ground, while the large stenciled word “PICASSO” in bright yellow grounds the image below.
Merging Pop’s commercial typography with art-historical reverence, Indiana reframes a modernist master as popular signage, showing how language and image can make celebrity and biography visible in graphic form.
Medium
Screenprint from a portfolio of thirty-one lithographs (one with aquatint, one with collotype, one with screenprint), twenty-two screenprints (one with embossing, one with flocking, one with stencil), eleven etchings (five with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint, one with aquatint, drypoint, and engraving), three aquatints (one with etching), and two woodcuts
Dimensions
composition: 24 x 20" (61 x 50.8cm); sheet: 29 15/16 x 22" (76 x 55.9cm)
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Credit
Gift of Dorothy Miller (by exchange)
Accession
22.1987.61
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