1971 After Pablo Picasso "War and Peace", Period Parisian Full-Color Print

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An excellent period photogravure, full-color print, of composition "La Guerre et la Paix" (War and Peace, 1952), by Pablo Picasso. … more An excellent period photogravure, full-color print, of composition "La Guerre et la Paix" (War and Peace, 1952), by Pablo Picasso. Comes from a rare folio of the artist published by New French Editions in Paris, 1971. Printed on one side. Hand tipped-in on a board of heavy paper. Copy by Georges Boudaille and a small hand-tipped print on back of the board. Excellent condition - minor edge wear on the board, never framed.

Overall 9.40"W x 12.80"H
Image 6.60"W x 8.95"H

Between April and September 1952, Pablo Picasso began producing paintings for the lay Chapel of Peace in Vallauris. Starting with a series of large preparatory drawings and sketches, some 250 in all, he then went on to creating War and Peace – irrefutable proof of his concern for the end of violence and the consolidation of world peace. "Oh, how I would love to decorate a chapel" - Pablo Picasso exclaimed in 1951 at a dinner celebrating his seventieth birthday. In 1956 Picasso donated War and Peace work to the French State which established the chapel as a National Museum in 1959. less