Vallauris 1953 - Exposition
1953
- Medium
- linocut on coloured paper
- Measurements
- 63.0 × 50.0 cm (image and block) 67.0 × 51.7 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Vallauris, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
- Printing/Publishing
- printed by Hidalgo Arnera, Vallauris published by the Association des potiers de Vallauris, Vallauris
- Inscription
- printed in ink l.r.: Picasso (Picasso underlined)
- Accession Number
- 2020.596
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2020
© Sucession Picasso/Copyright Agency - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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In 1948 Pablo Picasso moved into the villa La Galloise in Vallauris, a traditional potter’s village, and began making ceramics at the Madoura Pottery. The same year, in what would become an annual tradition, he designed a poster to advertise the town’s summer exhibition of local arts and crafts. While Picasso’s first Vallauris posters were lithographs, from 1951 he turned to the linocut medium after meeting the talented local linocut printer Hidalgo Arnéra. In Picasso’s poster for the 1953 Vallauris exhibition, the simple silhouettes of three heads – of his then partner, Françoise Gilot, and their two children, Paloma and Claude – are printed in black linocut on a rainbow-hued sheet of paper.
