Previous Exhibitions
40 Picasso's
Aquatint and drypoint etchings and Lithographs by Pablo Picasso
November 2006
Picasso's mother, Dona Maria Picasso Lopez, is reputed to have said to Picasso as a small boy, "If you become a soldier, you will be a general. And if you become a monk, you will be pope". Whatever the equivalent is for an artist, Picasso certainly fulfilled his mother's prophecy. Born in 1881, Picasso's life and work towered over the international art community for almost eighty years. Shortly before his death in 1973, at the age of 91, his closest friends and companions noted that he had already passed into myth, so strong was the force of his personality and the influence of his extraordinary artistic genius.
These forty works on paper demonstrate Picasso's unique virtuosity as a printmaker. Comprising mainly works selected from his highly acclaimed illustrations of animals and insects for Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, (Paris:Martin Fabiani, watermarked "Vollard" 1936/1942), this exhibition also includes several lithographs from 1963, and two portraits of his children, Claude and Paloma.
Cheryl Hannah, fyreGALLERY Director, presents this exhibition in association with her long standing art advisor and mentor, Josef Lebovic. In this, her fourth exhibition in fyreGALLERY, Cheryl is pleased to have the opportunity to bring high quality international works on paper to a new audience.
