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Picasso, Pablo
born 1881 in E - Malaga, died 1973 in F - Mougins
Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris
poster to the exhibition: Collection S. Guggenheim New York
motif: mandolin and guitar
1958 ( april - june )
colour lithograph
64 cm x 52 cm
edition of 1000 copies
print: Mourlot
some slight and small traces of age, slight abraison or slight print of the colour blue in the part of the letters, slight traces of glue at the upper border on the back,
in view of the age generally in good condition (see additional pictures)
order no. 11741
The last station of the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation touring exhibition - after London, Hague, Helsinki, Rome and Cologne - was Paris.
to the motif:
The motif for the exhibition poster was the large-size oil painting "mandolin and guitar", acquired in 1953, by one of the most famous european artist at that time: Pablo Picasso. It will be no chance that the motif of the exhibition poster is a main work by Picasso, sold to an American museum and now shown to the audience in Paris.
The ambiguous, from cubism and surrealism influenced work by Picasso announce the collection from New York which is staying here in Paris. It's a misunderstanding to see in this painting of 1924 and poster motif only a still life or a view on a landscape . Only at first sight the work appears as a cheerful still life with two music instruments and a window view on a blue summery sky. Table and interior remind of a stage, to the blue sky a dark room faces, but the music instruments form the eye sockets of a skull !
In the upper part of the poster is the horizontal format of the painting coherent to the letters in the lower part.
Compare in addition the reserved poster design for the same exhibition in Cologne 1958, designed by Joseph Fassbender (order no. 18070) !
Lit.:
Czwiklitzer, Christoph, Werkverzeichnis der Picasso-Plakate, München 1970, 126
Czwiklitzer, Christoph, Pablo Picasso. Plakate 1923-1973, Werkverzeichnis München 1981 (dtv), 141
Ruby, Sigrid: "Have We An American Art?" Präsentation und Rezeption amerikanischer Malerei im Westdeutschland und Westeuropa der Nachkriegszeit, Weimar 1999, p.356
See also our catalogue 'From Arp to Pollock': Art and exhibition posters in France and Germany 1945-1960, Cologne 2016, p. 42 f.
