About this artwork
Over a period of five years, Picasso worked with the printer Hildalgo Arnéra (1922–1927) to produce hundreds of linocuts with a printmaking process using a simple linoleum block, a common material in kitchen flooring. The printer described their working method: “Picasso worked at night; in the morning, Marcel the chauffeur brought what he had completed to the print shop with notes added by Jacqueline Roque [Picasso’s wife]. I pulled the proofs and returned them to [his home] La Californie at exactly 1:30.” This idiosyncratic procedure attests to the collaborative effort of Picasso’s printmaking ventures.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Pablo Picasso
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Title
- Still-Life with Lunch I
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Place
- Spain (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1962
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Medium
- Linocut in reddish brown on ivory wove paper; verso: linocut in rose-beige
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Dimensions
- Block: 64 × 53 cm (25 1/4 × 20 7/8 in.); Sheet: 95.5 × 62.3 cm (37 5/8 × 24 9/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Stacia Fischer Bequest Fund
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Reference Number
- 2004.1118
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Copyright
- © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York