Galerie de l'Elysée, 69 rue du Faubourg St-Honoré, Alex Maguy expose 7 tableaux majeurs de Picasso 30 mai - 30 juin (19)62
Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881–1973
1962
A lithograph poster by Pablo Picasso made to announce a 1962 exhibition, in which the artist uses a rough, mask‑like head to turn a promotional announcement into a small work of art.
You'd first notice the intense, carved face—rendered in scrawled black and brown strokes with oversized hollow eyes—framed by the artist's hurried reddish handwriting above and below, which reads like a private note made public.
The sheet exemplifies how Picasso brought his late portrait vocabulary into graphic design, using the poster to blur the line between fine art and mass communication and to make modernist imagery part of everyday visual life.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
25 11/16 x 19" (65.2 x 48.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Peter Stone Collection of Posters by Artists
Accession
462.1976
Palette
Art Terms
Exhibitions
