Pablo Picasso "Portraits Imaginaires"

Color lithograph, limited edition of 300 Size US: 27 1/2 x 19 1/2 in; framed: 30 x 22 in Size Europe: 70 x 49 cm; framed: 76 x 56 cm   By the year 1969, Pablo Picasso had become a living legend. A household name to even the artistically uninitiated, his villa, Notre-Dame-de-Vie, situated just beyond the village of Mougins in the Alpes-Maritimes, was beset throughout the summer by peering tourists hoping to catch a glimpse of the master at work. Fame and approbation, however, came as a contradiction to Picasso. In years gone by he had overturned traditional views and values in the art world. He was a rebel and revolutionary, one who believed in the genius of children over the technical repression of formal teaching and realistic representation. Yet now at the grand old age of 87, and with the emergence of Pop Art, performance ‘happenings’, and the birth of the art ‘concept’, he was viewed as part of the same establishment he had once torn down – the now-revered relic of a once-radical e