Pablo Picasso (Spanish 1881-1973), 'Le Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe' Hand Signed Lithograph with COA

Pablo Picasso (Spanish 1881-1973) [after], "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe" (1962), original lithograph double page on paper, hand-signed in red crayon & dated in the plate '11-8-59', Non editioned, Comes with Certificate of Authenticity from 'Bureaux & Galerie, France'. Certificate #71475671. Ref: Goeppert & Cramer 118 and published by Cercle d'Art, Paris, France 1962. The artwork has been beautifully framed with a double mat board in black and white. Artwork is in excellent condition given its age, Provenance: Private collector, Western Australia.

Le Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe by Picasso was a nod to Manet, whose painting inspired Picasso to a cycle of 27 paintings, 140 drawings, 3 linogravures and cardboard maquettes for sculpture carried out between 1949 and 1962. Picasso never depicts the precise scene; rather he makes a series of dramatic transformations of the work. 

Dimensions

Sheet size: 35cm x 45cm
Frame size:  58cm x 69cm x 2.5cm

Bio

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture,[8][9] the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. After 1906, the Fauvist work of the slightly older artist Henri Matisse motivated Picasso to explore more radical styles, beginning a fruitful rivalry between the two artists, who subsequently were often paired by critics as the leaders of modern art.[10][11][12][13] Picasso's work is often categorized into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), also referred to as the Crystal period. Much of Picasso's work of the late 1910s and early 1920s is in a neoclassical style, and his work in the mid-1920s often has characteristics of Surrealism. His later work often combines elements of his earlier styles. Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.