Fancy owning a Picasso?! The Marina Collection Limited Edition Prints Available To Buy Now
As a master of his craft, Picasso stands as one of the most recognised and influential artists ever. A prolific creator, who had a profound impact on modern art by pioneering many movements & techniques, including - but not limited to - Cubism and collage. Picasso was an experimenter at heart and a leader by practice.
Pablo Picasso - The Marina Collection
The lithographs for sale below form part of the Marina Picasso Estate Collection, which was hand-printed using a traditional method of multi-plate colouring, under the strict supervision of one of Picasso's closest creative partners, Marcel Salinas. The collection was published between 1979 and 1982 - several years after the artist's death - as a posthumous edition, with the permission of his Granddaughter, Marina Picasso.
These prints document important women in Picasso's life, including fellow artist Dora Maar, and his beloved daughter, Maya. Picasso believed that "art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life" and demonstrates this clearly by detailing colours, lines and forms to reflect the sitter as a whole; they are portraits of Picasso's perception, not just what the women looked like. To see the world this way and to pour your internal understanding out onto canvas through paint is a feat of admiration for both the medium and the matter. There is a brilliance in these portraits, that brings life into the paper with their vibrancy and expressive forms, and to showcase the Marina Collection is something to take great pride in.
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A spirited Maya Picasso, aged two-and-a-half, is the subject of this vivid portrait from 1938. Painted only months after he had finished his harrowing Guernica, this picture clearly evidences that Maya was a great source of joy in Picasso's life.
The baby girl presented new and delightful artistic challenges for her father. Picasso's palette for this picture captures the liveliness and playfulness of Maya's nursery. For the background he has chosen a robin's egg blue, which he also uses for the highlights of her blonde hair.
He depicts her holding a favourite toy boat, which features in other portraits from this time, and a colourful pinwheel in her chubby hand.
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During the early 20th Century, Picasso was working alongside George Braque with inspiration from African sculpture to create a new movement that came to be known as cubism. Here in Femme Au Balcon, we see Picasso's cubist elements blend with portraiture to create this image full of colour and life.
"Colours, like features, follow the changes of the emotions" - Picasso
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Pablo Picasso - The Marina Collection Provenance and Authenticity
Provenance
After Picasso passed away his estate was divided between several of his grandchildren. One of which was Marina Picasso. The prints we have form part of the Marina Picasso collection. She sold the publication rights to investors to pay duties to the French government, after which were settled, the paintings were returned to her from the French ministry of economics. On the bottom right-hand corner of these images is the name of the investor who bought the rights to each image. For example: Buste de femme’s investor – Jack B. King in 1982 Femme au balcon’s investor – Michael x. St.Martin Once returned,
Marina Picasso collaborated with Pablo Picasso’s print partner and master chromist Marcel Salinas to produce the edition of 1000 as multi-plate lithographs. They were printed with Marina Picasso’s permission and the signature featured at the bottom is a true signature of Pablo Picasso’s from an original printing plate. This was authorised for use in conjunction with New York attorney of law Martin Bressler Vaga.
Who was Marcel Salinas?
Born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1911 of an Italian father and French mother, Salinas traveled extensively in his youth throughout the Mediterranean and frequently visited major museums and archeological sites. The elements of such visions were to eventually contribute to his growth as a painter. He studied painting with André L’hote, the French cubist theorist who so strongly influenced modern painting in the last century. The mature paintings and graphic works of Marcel Salinas reveal his careful studies of Paul Cezanne and the Provençal landscape – atmosphere, light, and the importance of geometric shapes permeate his works.
He does a kind of sorcerer’s cuisine with his thin fingers, using ancient formulas, and during this process a constant recitation goes on which covers the whole history of art from the cavemen to the present,” praised Ludwig Bemelmans, famous for his New Yorker cover illustrations, of his painting teacher, Salinas. Paralleling his life as a painter and a print a printmaker, Salinas has always been active as a counselor in the field of drawing, painting and graphic art. He has been artist-in- residence at the Foundation Drancois Desnoyer, Saint-Cyprien and Foundation of Paule Mikkelsen Minde Klarslov, Denmark.
As an artist, a printmaker, an adviser and an art consultant, Salinas has always strived to reach the highest quality possible in his artwork and in the field of editing and multiples. Working with both French and American ateliers, Salinas has been involved with artists of all aesthetic persuasions. This flexibility derives from the exceptional quality of his artistic education and his formal training.
After the 1952 Egyptian revolution, exiled in Paris and desperate for money, Salinas got a job in a lithography workshop. He rapidly became an expert in the medium. He brought to lithography the same passion and rigor that were the mark of his painting. In 1969, he began a collaboration with Pablo Picasso. Salinas created a lithographic series of Picasso’s series of paintings, 29 Portraits Imaginaires. Published by the Editions Cercle d’Art, they would receive the Picasso’s whole-hearted approval.
From 1969 to 1971, Salinas devoted much time to the creation of this important collection. So moved was Picasso by the lithographs of his paintings, Pablo Picasso insisted that Salinas’ signature appear alongside his own on the completed lithograph editions.
Pablo Picasso - The Marina Collection Provenance and Authenticity
Salinas’ first love is painting, which he continues to this day in residences in America and
Belgium. Salinas has regularly exhibited in Paris at the Salon d’Automne, the Salondu Dessin et de la Peinture a L’eau and at the Grenier a Sel at Honfluer. His works are in collections in Egypt, Lebanon, Switzerland, Denmark, Great Britain, France, Japan and the United States, as well as in the Museum of Saint-Cyprien, the Bibliothé que Nationale of Paris and the Municipal Museum of Alexandria, Egypt.