Pablo Picasso, The Sailor, Original Lithograph, 1957 for sale at Pamono

Pablo Picasso - The Sailor, ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH, 1957
After the drawing by Pablo Picasso from his famous limited numbered edition on heavy Arches paper: " 40 dessins de Picasso en marge du Buffon"
* Printed by Robert Blanchet, from a limited edition of 2,000 proofs only and published by Jonquires, Paris.
Size: 38 x 28 cm ( 14 9/16 x 11")
*In Excellent condition, cones together with certificate issued by gallery.

In 1943, Picasso brought his lover, the Surrealist photographer and painter Dora Maar, a copy of the Histoire naturelle that he had dedicated to her. Meanwhile, at her studio, he decorated the margins and blank pages with human heads, animals, and fantastical creatures, with Maar herself as a bird-woman sphinx on the title page. The dedication, per Dora Maar / tan rbufona! (for Dora Maar, so pretty!), is a pun on the name Buffon and the Catalan word for pretty, buf.

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso (1881 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, print maker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright. As one of the greatest and 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.