Pablo Picasso "Portraits Imaginaires: Mousquetaire" 1969, Lithograph

Pablo Picasso (d'apres) "Portraits Imaginaires: Mousquetaire" 1969, Lithograph Original Size US: 30 x 22 in Size Europe: 76 x 56 cm Ed.250 Produced in 1969, this lithograph is from Picasso's Portraits Imaginaires suite. At 87 years old Picasso had become a living legend, with tourists flocking to see the master at work in his villa in Mougins, in the south of France. His final years were also extremely prolific, and he seemed to be painting on any material and surface he could get his hands on. Early that year, a delivery of art supplies arrived at Picasso's studio wrapped up in thick paper and boxed in corrugated cardboard. Rather than throw away the packaging, he immediately began to use them as canvases, slathering paint directly onto paper and cardboard and creating these amazing portraits of moustachioed musketeers, abstract female faces, and historical figures like Balzac, Shakespeare, and Rembrandt. Picasso was so pleased with the results that he sought out a printmaker