Portrait of a Woman, after Lucas Cranach II

Pablo Picasso Spanish
 Printed by Hidalgo Arnéra French
 Published by Galerie Louise Leiris

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This is one of Picasso's first and most complex linocuts. It required that he cut six separate blocks for each distinct color: black, red, green, yellow, brown, and blue. To improve the registration and streamline the process, Picasso invented a new way of printing a multicolored image from a single block, known as the reductive linocut.

Portrait of a Woman, after Lucas Cranach II, Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France), Linoleum cut

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Portrait of a Woman, after Lucas Cranach II, Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France), Linoleum cut
Portrait of a Woman, after Lucas Cranach II, Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France), Linoleum cut
Portrait of a Woman, after Lucas Cranach II, Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France), Linoleum cut

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