Museums Home BMAGiC Home Search Browse BMAGiC Help About BMAGiC Contact Us
           

Linocut - Head of a Bearded Man (Tete d'homme)

View main imageView larger image
© Succession Picasso/DACS 2001

Additional Images

Click on each image below to view at full size:
View image 2 View image 3 

Basic Information

Accession Number:1962P39
Collection:Fine Art Prints and Drawings
Date:1961 - 1961

Maker Information

Artist:Pablo Picasso - View biography for Pablo Picasso
Printer:Hidalgo Arnera - View biography for Hidalgo Arnera

Notes

In his late seventies, Picasso worked with the printer Arnera on a transformed method of working with a single linocut block, known as the reduction method. The first stage involved printing a flat tone from the uncarved surface of the lino. The block was then progressively cut, the lightest colours first and the whole edition printed for that particular colour, before re-cutting the surface for the subsequent colours. Picasso continued to use the medium until 1968, when he returned to etching.

Purchased with assistance from the Friends of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1957.

Further Information

Production Period:20th century
School/Style:Portrait
Medium:Linocut in three colours.
Material(s):Paper

Dimensions

Height:627 mm
Width:441 mm