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Hectograph on A.
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Maternity, 1938
Hectograph on A.
See original version (French)
Lot no. 62
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Maternity, 1938
Hectograph on A. Gestetner watermarked laid paper
Edition of approx. 12, not numbered
31 x 21 cm (sheet) - framed
According to Brigitte Baer in Picasso, Peintre-Graveur, III , the technique used by Picasso for five rare works in 1938 was similar to the mimeography process used before the advent of photocopying, or even closer to the process of drawing on a magic slate. The matrix or stencil is a sheet of felted fibre covered with a layer of wax. Picasso drew directly on the stencil, removing the wax and allowing the ink to pass through the wax-free areas. The process can therefore be classified as both a mechanical reproduction of a drawing and an engraved work, since Picasso worked directly on the matrix.
Only a small number of experimental prints appear to have been produced from any of these subjects, and the original drawings on the specially treated paper are presumed lost.
Picasso Estate 2025
Collection of Robert Rey (1888-1964), art historian, museum curator, art critic and member of the Cohors-Asturies resistance network; then by descent
Bloch 1829; Baer 726
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