Many of us think of Pablo Picasso as a Cubanist painter whose pieces are major attractions at galleries across the world.
But the Spanish artist was also prolific in producing pieces for the print media, producing a range of etchings, woodcuts, lithographs and linocuts, as an upcoming exhibition at a Newcastle art gallery will show.
Gallagher & Turner's Picasso In Print opens on October 10. The show covers thirty years of Picasso's work in the print media, from interpretations of Spanish literary classics, to natural histories, illustrations for operas and poems, and portraits of those close to the artist. Prints produced as far back as 1942 will be available to buy.
Gallery manager, Oliver Doe, said: "All of the pieces in the show are original prints produced between 1942 and 1971 and none are modern reproductions or new editions.
"Some of the linocuts were produced by Gallery Leiris in collaboration with Picasso in 1962 as a new run at 42% of the size of an original run of prints in an edition of 50 produced between 1958 and 1961, and as such are significantly more affordable than those editioned /50.
"The prices of the works in this show are between £495 and £3000."
Many of these pieces display the abstracted figures for which Picasso is perhaps most well known, but others are more illustrative, with a selection of realist portraits and caricature-type drawings, as well as bulls, horses, birds and insects – the animals that played a major role in his interpretations of Spanish culture and history in paintings such as the legendary ‘Guernica’.
Pablo Picasso in Print opens October 10th, running until 23rd November at Gallagher & Turner in St Mary's Place, Newcastle.
