Picasso Graphics, Pablo Picasso

Printmaking played an ever-present and essential role in Picasso’s career, fuelling his creative spirit and experimental verve for seven decades. Across engraving, etching, lithograph and linocut, Picasso’s graphic work offers a precious window into the artist’s creative process, to the way he builds images and returns to key, recurring motifs throughout his career. Further, variations on a particular subject – whether bullfighting, bacchanalia, portraits, the old masters, or the artist and model theme – reflect the artist’s fascination with working in series, which extends beyond printmaking in his drawings, sculptures and major works on canvas.