Flame Out For Picasso from Homage to Picasso (Hommage à Picasso)
James Rosenquist
American, 1933–2017
1973, published 1975
A color lithograph print in which James Rosenquist stitches together billboard-like fragments—measuring tape, pencils, crumpled paper, and stenciled characters—into a Pop-art homage to Picasso.
A diagonal ruler cleaves the sheet, separating a flat, blazing red panel with a ghosted lunar face and white geometric marks from a crumpled indigo field, while bright yellow pencils cross the divide and white calligraphic characters hover like stenciled signage.
By bringing commercial imagery and billboard aesthetics into fine-art printmaking, Rosenquist extended Pop art’s montage strategies and media critique while staging a playful, fractured tribute to Picasso and modernist precedent.
Medium
Lithograph 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 (irreg.): 30 1/16 x 20 3/4" (76.4 x 52.7cm); sheet: 29 15/16 x 22 1/2" (76 x 57.1cm)
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Credit
Gift of Dorothy Miller (by exchange)
Accession
22.1987.67
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