Here are 20 images from the exhibition ‘Picasso and Paper‘ which was held at the Cleveland Museum of Art from Dec 8 2024 to March 23 2025. I was particularly taken by the linocuts. Above is ‘Still Life Under a Lamp’, created in Mougins in March 1962.
According to the exhibition notes:
The print was created using a variation of the linocut technique that Picasso developed himself. He did so because he found the traditional process – which involves carefully lining up and printing a different linoleum block for each colour – too laborious. Instead he cut away areas of a single block and reprinted each colour as he went. Although this method removed the need for careful alignment, it presented its own challenges: a single mistake could ruin the entire edition.
Below is ‘Fauns and Goat’, created in Cannes in November 1959 and below that ‘Luncheon on the Grass’ after Manet, I, also created in Mougins, between January 26 and March 13, 1962.
Fauns and Goats – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025Luncheon on the Grass, after Manet, 1 – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025
Seventeen more below.
Detail from The Village Dance – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025Landscape of Gosol, a village in the Pyrenees – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025Weeping Woman 6 – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art 2025Weeping Head with Handkerchief Postscript of Guernica – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025Violin – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025Detail from Violin – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025The Harem – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025The Frugal Meal – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025Study for Horse Sketch for Guernica – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025Study for ballet Chinese Conjuror – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025One of Picasso’s sketchbooks – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025Mother with Dead Child Sketch for Guernica 1 – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025Head of a Woman – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025Guernica compositional study – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025Picasso: “We are what we keep” – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025Letters from Bela Czobel to Picasso – Picasso and Paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025
