Toros Vallauris 1958

(After) Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973, Spain) “Toros Vallauris 1958” (Bulls in Vallauris) Reduced version of the original 1958 poster for the French town’s annual art exhibition. This work of art is a plate-signed and dated (June 24, 1958) offset lithograph on paper that measures 12 x 9 inches. Featured is an abstract torero (bullfighter) in full costume presented in black and bright orange/yellow. The piece has been double matted with complimentary colors and placed in a 16.25 x 12.25-inch black frame.

Picasso created ceramics at a studio in Vallauris over a period of several years and every year from 1951 to 1964, he designed at least one original poster advertising the art expositions of fine clay and pottery from the Riviera town near Cannes in the South of France. In 1959, printer Mourlot Freres in Paris created a series of lithographs ("Affiches Originales") of reduced size versions of posters by the contemporary masters of the time. This image is referenced MP. 94 in the book by Fernand Mourlot, “Art in Posters: The Complete Original Posters of Braque, Chagall, Dufy, Léger, Matisse, Miró, Picasso” (1959). Additional literature: Georges Bloch 1282; Brigitte Baer 1049; Christophe Czwiklitzer 28; Bloch, Georges. Pablo Picasso: Catalogue de l'oeuvre grave et lithographie. Bern: Kornfeld and Klipstein, 1963.