1987 Pablo Picasso Poster, The Weeping Woman, Dora Maar, La femme qui pleure, Picasso Museum, artist gallery exhibition, wall art decor

1987 Pablo Picasso Poster, The Weeping Woman, Dora Maar, La femme qui pleure, Picasso Museum, artist gallery exhibition, wall art decor

This original exhibition poster is from the Musée National Picasso-Paris for an exhibition in Paris in 1987 featuring "La femme qui pleure" or "The Weeping Woman" from 1937. The Weeping Woman paintings depict Dora Maar, Picasso's mistress and muse. The Weeping Woman paintings were produced by Picasso in response to the bombing of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War and are closely associated with the iconography in his painting Guernica. Picasso was intrigued with the subject of the weeping woman, and revisited the theme numerous times that year.
Dimensions: 23.5 in x 16 in (60 cm x 40 cm)
Condition: some rough edges, see photos

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War.

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Because of the age of these posters, there are areas of wear and tear, particularly on the edges. I have done my best to take photos where they are torn. The good news is that when framed, the tears press up well against glass, and edges can be hidden by mats. Any wear picked up from years are part of the charm.

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