Peintures (Vauvenargues 1959-1961) - Galerie Louise Leiris 1962, Original Poster, Pablo Picasso

This poster, to promote Picasso’s exhibition of paintings at the Galerie Louise Leiris in Paris in 1962 was designed by Henri Deschamps using an image called The Village of Vauvenargues. Picasso painted the original in 1959.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, his extraordinary artistic genius made him the ‘rock star’ of the Modern Art world pioneering cubism, surrealism, expressionism and collage. Throughout his long career, he produced more than 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theatre sets, and costumes. From the mid-1940s, he also worked with the Mourlot studios in Paris and created over 400 lithographs and exhibition posters. As well as Fernand Mourlot, Henri Deschamps was Picasso's favourite and most trusted master printer at the studio and they collaborated together from 1945 right up until Picasso’s death in 1973.