La lecture (1925-26)

Pablo Picasso

lithograph, with scraping

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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Classification:

Materials:

Van Gelder paper

Physical Object Description:

Reading; woman seated with book on lap reading to child. 1925-6 Lithograph, with scraping. Signed and numbered 60/100.

Technique:

Lithograph, Scraper

Dimensions:

32.6 x 24.5 cm

Accession Number:

1945,1208.317

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1945

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased from the Berkeley Galleries, London by the Contemporary Art Society (for 6 gns), 1943; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1945

Relationship:

Berkeley Galleries, London Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

This lithograph, drawn with lithographic crayon and scraper on stone, was executed in 1925-26. The British Museum's impression is from the Galerie Simon (Kahnweiler) edition, probably printed by Charlot Frères (or by Desjobert for Charlot Frères); it is one of 50 signed impressions printed on white wove Van Gelder paper, numbered 51/100 to 100/100. 50 impressions were also printed on 'fond chamois' wove Van Gelder paper, numbered 1/100 to 51/100. The print shows the artist's only legitimate son Paulo, at age five, dressed as a young Mozart being read to by his mother, Olga.

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