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Picasso subverted the accepted linocut technique of printing each colour from a separate block, and employed a single block which he cut to print the first colour, then cut again to print the second, and so on. This became known as the 'reductive' method, and frequently resulted in a block reduced to nothing but a few small highlights. In 1963, towards the end of his affair with the medium, he developed the technique still further, and created an image from five blocks, but took three of these blocks and created independent images from each, before they were cut again and incorporated into the final composition. The following three lots Tetes, L'Homme au Baton and Femme nu debout are these three intermediate images, that were amalgamated to form part of Le Vieux Roi (B. 1152).

Pablo Picasso

Têtes (B. 1104; Ba. 1338 Rose II Ba)

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Pablo Picasso
Têtes (B. 1104; Ba. 1338 Rose II Ba)
linocut in black and two shades of brown, 1963, on Arches, signed in pencil, numbered 27/50 (there were also approximately twenty hors commerce copies), published by Galerie L. Leiris, Paris, with margins, very pale light-staining, two pale areas in the upper margin (where taped on the reverse), otherwise in very good condition, framed
B. 640 x 530 mm., S. 750 x 620 mm.

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