Description:With extremely bold and vibrant color, this Cavalier upholds a regal and distinguished presence, allowing him to explode from the sheet. The intensity of the reds coupled with bright yellows and blue highlights balances perfectly with interspersed areas of grey and black. This is classic Picasso, using his cubist sensibilities to help transform a seemingly traditional portrait subject into one instilled with wit, humor, and charm. This work remains a feast for the eyes and is able to brighten any room in which it hangs.
Created on October 13, 1968, this color lithograph was published by well-known lithographer, Henri Deschamps and printed by Mourlot, Paris. Hand-signed by Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) in pencil in the lower right margin, this work is numbered 109/300 in pencil in the lower left. This work was based on an original oil on canvas also by Picasso.
Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
It is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work):
1. The Picasso Project. Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, & Sculpture – The Sixties III 1968 – 1969, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts: San Francisco, 2003. Listed and illustrated as cat. no. 68-179 on pg. 55.
About the Framing:
Conservation framed with museum-quality, archival materials, this work is set in a monumental Spanish style frame with gold and black sculpted moulding. The bright golds of the frame compliment the strong contrast in this work and the undulating ribbon details of the moulding compliment the organic shapes in the image. Completed with white, linen-wrapped mats and a matching gold inner fillet, this work is set behind an archival Plexiglas cover.
