PABLO RUIZ PICASSO (DESPUES)

(1881 / 1973)

PABLO RUIZ PICASSO (AFTER) Malaga (1881) / Paris, France (1973) "Santa Claus"

Offset lithograph on paper Signed on the plate. Drawing made for the front page of the newspaper L'Humanite de Dimanche of December 22, 1957. The original is in the Museum of Art and History of Saint-Denis in Paris. Edition of the Saint-Denis museum in 1974 (Copyright Spadem), printed by Frazier, Paris. Erroneously, in a text under the passepartout it says that it is based on a watercolor from 1959 instead of 1957. Reproduced in “Picasso, 145 dessins pour la presse et les organizations democratiques”, L'humanite, 1973, no. 36 and the cover of the newspaper in “Picasso and the presse” un peintre dans l'histoire, p.169, No. 253. Measurements: 52 x 50 cm