Pablo Picasso

PABLO PICASSO (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, France, 1973).
"Colombe de la paix", 1952.
Blue and red colored pencils on the cover of the magazine "Le Point , revue artistique et littéraire", Numéro Picasso, Sovillac. October 1952.
Attached certificate of authenticity issued by the Picasso committee on 06/17/24.
Page 42 presents signature and drawing by TRISTAN TZARA.
Signed and dedicated to Pierre and Genia Courtade.
Measurements: 21 x 15 cm (drawing); 26 x 20 cm (56-page catalog).
Original drawing by Picasso on the cover of the magazine "Le Point", made in colored pencils. Picasso presents one of the most iconic emblems of his painting, the dove of peace. This symbol was created by the artist for the World Peace Congress held in 1949 in Paris, although the presence of the dove in his work had been latent since his childhood. It is worth noting that on page 42 of the magazine an inscription can be seen composed of a hand pointing, the same that appears in the Dada manifesto, the name of the artist Tristan Zara (1896-1963), creator of the manifesto, and a heart, indicating that it is another dedication like the one Picasso signed on the cover of this magazine to Genia and Pierre Cortade, renowned writer and journalist.
Le Point was a literary magazine founded in 1936. The magazine's editorial headquarters was at the Café de Paris, owned by his wife Paule Sabatié, which hosted Aragon, Paul Eluard, Jacques Prévert, Robert Doisneau, Jean-Louis Barrault, René Char, Le Corbusier, André Malraux, André Chamson, Tristan Tzara, Ossip Zadkine and Claude Roy. The magazine reflected with originality the French literary and artistic scene, as well as social phenomena.
Creator of Cubism together with Braque, Picasso began his artistic studies in Barcelona, at the Provincial School of Fine Arts (1895). Only two years later, in 1897, Picasso had his first solo exhibition at the café "Els Quatre Gats". Paris was to become Pablo's great goal and in 1900 he moved to the French capital for a brief period of time. When he returned to Barcelona, he began to work on a series of works in which the influences of all the artists he had known or whose work he had seen could be seen. He is a sponge that absorbs everything but retains nothing; he is searching for a personal style. Between 1901 and 1907 he developed the Blue and Pink Stages, characterized by the use of these colors and by their subject matter with sordid, isolated figures, with gestures of sorrow and suffering. The painting of these early years of the twentieth century was undergoing continuous changes and Picasso could not remain on the sidelines. He became interested in Cézanne, and based on his example he developed a new pictorial formula together with his friend Braque: Cubism. But Picasso did not stop there and in 1912 he practiced collage in painting; from that moment on, anything goes, imagination became the master of art. Picasso is the great revolutionary and when all the painters are interested in cubism, he is concerned with the classicism of Ingres. The surrealist movement of 1925 did not catch him unawares and, although he did not participate openly, it served as an element of rupture with the previous, introducing in his work distorted figures with great force and not exempt of rage and fury. As with Goya, Picasso was also greatly influenced by his personal and social situation at the time of his work. His relationships with women, often tumultuous, will seriously affect his work. However, what had the greatest impact on Picasso was the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War and the bombing of Guernica, which led to the creation of the most famous work of contemporary art. Paris was his refuge for a long time, but the last years of his life were spent in the south of France, working in a very personal style, with vivid colors and strange shapes. Picasso is represented in the most important museums around the world, such as the Metropolitan, the MOMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the National Gallery in London or the Reina Sofia in Madrid.