Jeunesse
Pablo Picasso
Jeunesse
lithograph
1950
An original Pablo Picasso lithograph print.
(Youth)
1950
Original lithograph printed in black ink on Arches wove paper.
Signed and dated on the stone lower right Picasso 23 mai 50
A superb trial proof impression (one of only two such proofs recorded by the Picasso Project), apart from the 6 proofs of Mourlot’s first state, and the 6 proofs and signed and numbered edition of 50 of Mourlot’s second and final state (and apart from the poster edition), annotated in pencil in the margin lower left “188 entre 1 et 2 etat”. Commissioned as the illustration for a poster advertising the 1950 International Youth Conference to Ban Atomic Weapons. Published by the review Les Partisans de la Paix; printed at Atelier Fernand Mourlot, Paris.
Catalog: Bloch 675; Mourlot 188; Reusse 543; Güse/Rau 502A; Picasso Project 188 trial proof
19 5/8 x 25 ½ inches
Sheet Size: 22 ¼ x 30 1/8 inches
