Pablo Picasso

"Femme assise en pyjama de plage II", 1961, colour linocut on paper Arches, copy 57/100, signed (lower right) by pencil "Picasso". Bibliography : Patrik Cramer, Pablo Picasso :The Illustrated Books, Catologue Raisonnè, Ginevra 1983, n.115, p.284; Brigitte Baer, Picasso : Peintre-graveur, catologue raisonnè de l'oeuvre gravè et des monotypes, Vol. V, Berna 1994, n.1276, p.353. In this work Picasso uses again the already developed style in the 1920/30s of extreme simplification, of which he was pioneer. There are existing two versions of the "Femme assise en pyjamas de plage"(I and II), which were created on the same day the 3rd July of 1961., 54,7x43,2 cm.