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Paloma and Claude (cover design for Picasso's Lithographs II)

1950

Pablo Picasso

(Spanish, 1881–1973)
printer and publisher

Mourlot

Culture
Spain, 20th century
Medium
transfer lithograph
Measurements
Overall: 32 x 51.6 cm (12 5/8 x 20 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of The Cleveland Museum of Art Library 1956.599
Catalogue raisonné
Bloch 664; Mourlot III.44.186; Cramer 60
Copyright
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Picasso frequently depicted Claude and Paloma, his children with the artist Françoise Gilot.

Description

To create the portrait of his two children seen here, Picasso applied lithographic ink directly to a printing stone using his fingers. He experimented with the technique during the print’s creation, wiping the material in sweeping marks to depict his daughter, Paloma, and layering his fingerprints for the image of his son, Claude. The vertical border between the pair suggests the work’s intended use as the cover of a book about Picasso’s lithographs.
A horizontally oriented print depicts the faces of two children created from thick smears of black ink. Streaks of ink outline the face and wisps of hair of the child on the left, the face and background showing white. On the right, the child's face is created by clustered black ink dabs dominating the background and blending in the face, save for the child's right cheek and around where their neck would be, showing white.

Paloma and Claude (cover design for Picasso's Lithographs II)

1950

Pablo Picasso, Mourlot

(Spanish, 1881–1973)
Spain, 20th century

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