Original 1988 Picasso “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” Musée Picasso Paris Poster

An original Musée Picasso Paris exhibition poster produced in 1988 for “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”, Pablo Picasso’s groundbreaking painting of 1907.

The exhibition ran at the Musée Picasso from 27 January to 18 April 1988 and examined the creation and importance of one of the defining works of early modern art. The poster reproduces a striking detail from the painting, now held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon was one of the paintings that transformed his career. Its distorted bodies, conflicting viewpoints and mask-like faces abandoned conventional Western ideas of perspective and idealised beauty.
Published by Stampa Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri SpA
Printed in Italy for the New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Dimensions: 23.5 in x 16 in (60 cm x 40 cm)

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.

The intense colorism of the works he painted between 1900 and 1905 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauves (wild beasts). Many of his finest works were created in the decade or so after 1906, when he developed a rigorous style that emphasized flattened forms and decorative pattern. In 1917, he relocated to a suburb of Nice on the French Riviera, and the more relaxed style of his work during the 1920s gained him critical acclaim as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. After 1930, he adopted a bolder simplification of form. When ill health in his final years prevented him from painting, he created an important body of work in the medium of cut paper collage.

What is special about exhibition and gallery posters is that they are an affordable way of getting good, unique art on the walls, as although it is not an artists original, neither is it something that has been mass reproduced.

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.

These posters are sent as unframed. They are delivered in a cardboard tube for protection.

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