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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.
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.
