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Picasso, Pablo
born 1881 in E - Malaga, died 1973 in F - Mougins
Galerie Henri Tronche, Paris
poster to Exposition Hispano-Americaine
motive: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza with peace dove
1951
lithograph
65 cm x 50 cm
edition of 300 copies
print: Mourlot
restored tear at one lower corner, slight traces of use on the back, generally in good, nearly perfect condition
order no. 25015
Picasso designed the poster to the Spanish-American exhibition in the gallery Henri Tronche. Motives were also Picasso's friendship to Wifredo Lam and the interest for Central America and the Caribbean (see Morris/Grunenberg, 2010, p.45 f.). The Spanish living outside of Spain dominated by the dictator Franco "restent toujours espagnols de coeur, d'esprit, de temperament, de langue meme, et peintres avant tout. Car la qualité de l'ensemble réuni ici donne une singulière portée à cette exposition. Qu'il nous suffise de mentionner à l'intention des amateurs les noms qui nous sont les plus familiers, ceux de Clavé, Dominguez, Flores, Parra, Peinado, Palmeiro, Fin et Vines, parmi les Américains Lam, Siqueiros, Raborda, Barrios". (exposition review in "Arts. Beaux Arts, Litterature, Spectacles", num.337, Paris 14.12.1951, p.5, cit. at Bravo, 1996, p. 155 note 15)
Participating artists were Antoni Clavé, Óscar Dominguez, Joaquin Peinado, José Palmeiro, José Fin, Hernando Vines, then Wifredo Lam, David Alfari Siqueiros, Americo Taborda among others...
There are two other variants of the motive Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, but not designed in the poster, see Rodrigo 1971, p.52.
catalogue raisonné:
Mourlot, Fernand: Art in Posters. The Complete Original Posters of Braque, Chagall, Dufy, Léger, Matisse, Miró, Picasso, Paris 1959, no. 63
Czwiklitzer, Christoph, Werkverzeichnis der Picasso Plakate. Paris 1970, 10
Czwiklitzer, Christoph, Pablo Picasso. Plakate 1923-1973, Werkverzeichnis München 1981 (dtv), 10
Rodrigo, Luis Carlos, Picasso in his posters - image and work, 4 Bde. Berlin 1971-76, 12
Bravo, Miguel Cabanas: Artistas contra Franco. La oposición de los artistas mexicanos y espanoles exiliados a las bienales hispanoamericanas de arte, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 1996
Morris, Lynda and Christoph Grunenberg: Picasso - Frieden und Freiheit, exhibition-cat. Tate Liverpool / Albertina Wien / Louisiana Humlebaek 2010/11, Cologne 2010, p.45 f.
