Picasso peintres daujourd hui – exhibition poster for Musee de Grenoble, 1959

An original Picasso lithographic poster for a group exhibition featuring ‘Painters of the Day’ at Musee de Grenoble, from July – September 1969. This Picasso peintres daujourd hui poster features a lithograph of a 1956 oil by Picasso titled ‘La Danse’. The poster was produced by Atelier Mourlot, a fine art lithographic printers who, in the early 20th century, invited some of the most celebrated artists of the time to the studio to collaborate on traditional stone lithography. Artists such as Braque, Calder, Chagall, Dufy, Léger, Matisse, Miró and Picasso worked with Mourlot to produce visually striking lithographs that were used as posters to promote the artists’ work or exhibitions and pasted up all over cities.

**This work comes with a signed and dated certificate of provenance.

Year: 1959

Medium: Traditional stone colour lithograph

Printers: Mourlot, Paris

Signed in plate, upper left

Dimensions: 74 x 50 cm

Edition: 1000

Reference: Zervos, Picasso, Vol XVII, No. 154