Name: Pablo Picasso - Colombe Volant
SKU: 9669
Price: 9500.00 GBP
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Description

Reference: Bloch 1356; Hatje Cantz 597; Mourlot 214

Mallen, Enrique, ed. 1997-2023. Online Picasso Project. Sam Houston State University. (52:250)

Exhibited: Morris, Lynda & Christoph Grunenberg. 2010 . Picasso: Peace and Freedom (Tate Liverpool, 21 May – 30 August, 2010);

Picasso. Frieden und Freiheit (Albertina, Vienna, 22 September – 16 Januar, 2011; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, 15 Oktober, 2010 – 30 Januar, 2011). London: Tate Publishing. (55)

Edition: 50 There were also 5 or 6 proofs made for the artist and printer. Both Cantz and Mourlot fail to mention an edition of 50 but we have seen other examples passing through auction (cf: Swann 7/3/2013 – Lot 00386) so this just be an oversight.

Size: image: 19 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. (49.5 x 62.2cm), sheet: 21 1/2 x 29 3/4 in. (54.6 x 75.6cm)

Note: In the aftermath of the Second World War Picasso joined the communist party and was active in promoting its activities through his art. The Newspaper “Le Patriot” was a supporter of this ideology and Picasso made a number of lithographs and Linocuts which were published by this organisation amongst which was our work. This was sold to raise finds for the communist party. The poster was made , using the earlier lithograph, to raise funds and awareness for the Disarmament summit conference to be held in Vienna in December 1952. There were scarves made for the same event one of which passed through our hands some years ago. On the same day Picasso made a colour version of this Lithograph “Colombe volant a l’arc en ciel” which was later to be published in an edition of 200 to promote the Paris Peace Conference of 1960. A few days before he had made a series of Lithographs on the theme of “Peace” showing hands clasped as a border to a dove flying left.

La Colombe – The Dove is one of the most famous themes in Picasso’s art of the 1950’s. He was asked to make an image to express the ideals and aims of the new ‘ Peace Conference’ which would bring together all the European nations in the aftermath of the war – the forerunner of the United Nations. His image of the ‘Dove of Peace’ was to become one of the most famous symbols of the era. Picasso made a number of versions of the Dove composition in connection with this project, amongst them the versions of the ‘Dove surrounded by Linked Hands’, and of the ‘Dove with the Ear of Corn’ (picking up from the Bible story of Noah’s Ark), and then a group of compositions with the Dove against a rainbow of colours. The version above belongs to this group. The lithograph was originally drawn on the stone in October 1952 but apart from c.5 proofs no edition was printed at that date; in May 1960 Picasso returned to the image and, using transfer paper, added colours for the background. The edition of 200 signed impressions was then printed

Subsequently the image was used again to embellish a poster for the 1960 Peace Conference.

Published by: The later poster was published by Le Movement de la Paix, Paris, France. We are not sure who the publisher was for our lithograph.

Printed by: Mourlot Freres, Paris, France

Public Collections: Kunstmuseum Picasso, Munster

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