After Manet and Picasso "Lunch on the Grass", Vintage Prints Set of 2

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A rare set of two First Edition vintage prints of "Luncheon on the Grass" by Manet and Picasso.

First American … more A rare set of two First Edition vintage prints of "Luncheon on the Grass" by Manet and Picasso.

First American Edition full-color print after painting by Manet (1863) comes from a rare vintage First Limited Edition folio published in the 1950s. Printed on one side. Hand tipped-in on a board of heavy paper. Information regarding the original artwork will be found by lifting the plate.

"Luncheon on the Grass (After Manet)" (1960) by Pablo Picasso is a First Edition photogravure (print) after oil on canvas painting by the artist. Comes from a rare First Limited Edition folio of the artist published by New French Editions in Paris, France, in 1985. Printed on one side. Hand tipped-in on a board of heavy paper. Numbered. Information regarding the original painting, in French, printed below the image. Copy by Georges Boudaille on the back of the board.

Both pieces are in excellent condition - never framed.

"Luncheon on the Grass" by Manet:
14.75"W x 10.75"H Overall
10.10"W x 8"H Image

"Luncheon on the Grass" by Picasso
9.5"W x 12.75"H Overall
8.90"W x 6"H Image

Manet's composition, showing two nudes with two clothed men in a landscape, is itself a kind of variation. Almost exactly 100 years before Picasso treated this theme, Manet, building on a theme taken from an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi, attempted to translate Giorgione's Concert champetre (in The Louvre) into a contemporary idiom. The Arcadian figures in the work of the great Venetian painter were transformed by Manet into Parisians of his own day, and Arcadia itself took on a new, contemporary form just outside the gates of Paris... Read more: https://www.pablopicasso.org/luncheon-on-the-grass.jsp less