24.5*18.2 cm

Date of creation: 1971Medium: LithographSignature: Picasso (lower right)Context: The figure depicted is Picasso's self-projection. He portrays himself as a working painter holding a brush and palette, with radiating lines in the background symbolising creative energy and inspiration. This way of inserting himself into the work represents his ultimate expression of the relationship between art and life.Continuing Picasso's late-period Cubist and Expressionist style, the piece shatters the realistic conventions of traditional portraiture through fragmented geometric planes, bold colours and vigorous brushwork, condensing the artist's inner passion and creative state within a single composition.The inscription "ART SUISSE GENEVA" at the bottom of the sheet indicates the work was exhibited at the 1971 Picasso prints and drawings exhibition in Geneva, serving as important evidence of his artistic influence in later life.Comes with frame, with collector's stamp on the reverse.