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Picasso, Pablo
born 1881 in E - Malaga, died 1973 in F - Mougins
poster for School Prints Ltd.
title: Composition
1948
original design
colour lithograph
49 cm x 76 cm
printed in Great Britain by W.S.Cowell Ltd.
(see additional picture)
traces of age, creases, glued tear at the lower border, generally in good condition (see additional picture)
order no. 25124
to the motif:
The ambiguous, from cubism and surrealism influenced work by Picasso is not simple.
Only at first sight the composition appears as a still life with table and interior and fruits and animals,
on the other side in the upper field a bull and a bull fighter are in opposition to each other and form a second motif,
or as a third motif the right figur as Brenda Rawnsley, the director of the project School Prints, with the small aeroplane which has been used during the flight to Paris !
Compare the School Prints by Léger and Matisse !
catalogue raisonné:
Cattley, Carol: Die wundersame Reise der Mrs.Rawnsley. In: ZEIT magazin, 7.Mai 1971, no.19, p.18-21
Wünsche, Hermann (ed.): School Prints. Eine Londoner Kunst-Edition aus den 40er Jahren.Textbeiträge von Hans Gerd Tuchel, Königswinter 1986, p. 68 f.
concerning Picasso's still life see Morris, Lynda und Christoph Grunenberg: Picasso - Frieden und Freiheit, Ausstellungskat.Tate Liverpool / Albertina Wien / Louisiana Humlebaek 2010/11, Köln 2010, p.100 ff.
