Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Paloma and Claude
Medium: Lithograph on paper (double side)
Serie: Picasso lithographe
Year: 1950
Edition: special definitive proove before the 2000 pieces
Publisher-editor: Andre Sauret
Bibliograph/Published: Bloch 664, Mourlot 186, Cramer 60
Sizes: 38 x 51.5 cm, Sheet: 50 x 64 cm (with text)
Signature: Signed  on pencil
Condition: Perfect
Finger drawing (with ink) on transfer paper, transferred in to stone
Rare proof  (final) with the kids printed on the front and back on the same sheet, as well as the text in the opposite direction and upside down on one side.
This work is the first lithograph in almost a year, a period that Picasso mostly spent in Vallauris.
Shown are the two children of Picasso and Fran-goise Gilot:
Claude, born on May 15, 1947 (cf.No. 476/4), and
Paloma, born April 19, 1949.
Picasso applied the litho ink, diluted with a little water, with his finger instead of a brush
Bibliography: (Bloch 664, Mourlot 186, Cramer 60)
Subject dimension with text: 38 x 51.5 cm, Sheet: 50 x 64 cm