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Furthermore, this lithograph has been reproduced as a motif for other posters.
‘The Dove’ is one of Picasso’s best-known and most appreciated lithographs for its exceptional quality. Fernand Mourlot, its printer, considers it to be a masterpiece of printing and even claims that it is the best print he ever made. It is undoubtedly an exquisite and highly accurate drawing, both in its composition and colouring.
The ‘Dove of Peace’ was reportedly greeted with great enthusiasm by the Communists. The first time Picasso attended a Communist Party congress, in Paris, the hall was filled with joy. Due to the success of the poster, Picasso decided that his daughter, who had been born on 19 April, would be called Paloma, and given her beauty and personality, so characteristically Spanish, this was a success. Picasso was so pleased with the poster’s success that when he learned during the Congress that Françoise Gilot, the woman with whom he shared his life, had just given birth to a daughter, he told Hélène Parmelin that he had decided to name his daughter Paloma. And so he did.
When this exquisite engraving of ‘The Dove of Peace’ appeared on the poster that flooded the City of Light, it was said that “the dove can no more be separated from Picasso than Paris can be from the Chams-Elysées.”
