PABLO PICASSO
Málaga 1881- 1973 Mougins (Spanish)

Célestine Avec Une Femme, Un Cavalier et Son Valet - 1968
Original Hand Numbered and Inscribed Color Linocut

Title : Célestine Avec Une Femme, Un Cavalier et Son Valet.

Technique : Original Color Linocut on Velin (Wove) paper.

Paper size : 14,5 x 21,5 cm / 5.7 x 8.5 in

Image Size: 11,4 x 17 cm / 4.5 x 6.7 in

Additional Information : This Color Linocut is Hand Numbered in pencil "299/450" at the lower left margin,
as well as Hand Inscribed in pencil "HC" (Hors Commerce = Before Trade) at the lower right margin.
This is an invitation card for the Madoura gallery for an exhibition by Picasso in 1968.
The work was printed by Arnera, Vallauris and published by Gallerie Madoura, Cannes and Vallauris, 1970
The Linocut was printed in a limited edition of 450 hand numbered and inscribed impressions.
There were also 125 numbered impressions on Arches paper

Literature: Pablo Picasso: Tome II, Catalogue de l'oeuvre Grave et Lithographie by Georges Bloch, edition Kornfeld et Klipstein, Berne 1975.
Reference: Bloch II n° 1462 , Picasso Linoleum Cuts 118.

Condition : Very Good condition. Unexamined out of the frame.