Descripción
The motif of this poster was also used in the posters published for the exhibition of Picasso’s graphic works organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1981.
The poster shows a linocut that Picasso made of Jacqueline’s face. In this work, the composition is structured with cubist elements in certain features: eyes and mouth from the front and in profile, which do not clash with the hair and hands, creating a harmonious combination of volume and lines. The blue-grey he uses gives these prints a great delicacy.
In 1959, Picasso had taken up residence in the Château de Vauvenargues, which he had bought a year earlier. When Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler visited him, he alluded to the sadness of the place. Picasso replied that he should not forget that Picasso was Spanish. It was there, in one of the paintings he made of his wife, that he christened her Jacqueline de Vauvenargues. It was also there that he produced an important series of paintings, as well as linocuts of Jacqueline, from which this print comes.
