Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Die Panflöte

Artist: Pablo Picasso (born 25 October 1881 in Málaga, Spain – died 8 April 1973 in Mougins, France)

Title: Die Panflöte (original oil on canvas, 1923)

Printing technique: light print / collotype, 1988
Printer: the world-famous Jaffé printing house
A very rare sheet and difficult to find.
Light print in 12 colors on special light-print cardboard.

Motie format: H 69 cm × W 58 cm
Sheet format: H 79 cm × W 66 cm
Condition: very good

Information about the original on which this light print is based:
Oil on canvas, Musée Picasso, Paris. The work dates from the classical period of the 20th century, during Picasso's marriage to the dancer Olga Koklova.

Information about the light print technique:
The light print is about 125 years old, an now no longer used form of lithography. By using a raster-free grain and as many as fourteen printing passes with specially long-lasting lightfast colors, a particularly faithful photographic reproduction could be achieved. This technique is regarded as one of the most refined printing methods and yields a lightfastness that is not attainable even with modern techniques.

Due to the time-consuming, fully manual and therefore costly process, the disappearance of specialized craftsmen and the lack of future prospects, this highly precise printing technique has been regarded worldwide for about twenty years as “extinct” and is no longer reproducible.

Therefore classical facsimile lightprints hold a special and unique meaning within the history of graphic printing.