This book presents Picasso’s complete lithographic oeuvre consisting of 855 items. The works are mostly taken from the Huizinga collection, the central holdings of the first Picasso museum in Germany, the Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Mtinster. Assembled in the course of more than three decades, this collection is unmatched, impossible to be repeated or recreated as such. Its uniqueness lies in the rarity of its test and state printings, its numerous single specimens and unpublished sheets. The catalogue is the first to list every printed sheet as an individual work and thus constitutes a reliable reference work for Picasso’s lithographic oeuvre. An interview with the printer Henri Deschamps offers an immediate, contemporary account of the process of creation of the sheets, the profound introduction to Picasso’s litographic oeuvre by Erich Franz sharpens the viewer’s eyes for the innovative diversity of this seminal artist.

In the technique of lithography, like in no other medium, Picasso’s creative genius reveals itself after 1945 through its unfailing power of transformation concerning theme,contents and form.

This book presents Picasso’s complete lithographic oeuvre consisting of 855 items. The works are mostly taken from the Huizinga collection, the central holdings of the first Picasso museum in Germany, the Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Mtinster. Assembled in the course of more than three decades, this collection is unmatched, impossible to be repeated or recreated as such. Its uniqueness lies in the rarity of its test and state printings, its numerous single specimens and unpublished sheets. The catalogue is the first to list every printed sheet as an individual work and thus constitutes a reliable reference work for Picasso’s lithographic oeuvre. An interview with the printer Henri Deschamps offers an immediate, contemporary account of the process of creation of the sheets, the profound introduction to Picasso’s litographic oeuvre by Erich Franz sharpens the viewer’s eyes for the innovative diversity of this seminal artist.

Erich Franz

     7 Involved Gazes

      Pieasso’s Lithographic Art

      translated by John S. Southard

Felix Rouge

    19 Remarks on the collection

      Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Miinster

      translated by Anne Heritage

    25 Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Miinstcr

      The Huizinga collection

    26 Preliminary notes

      translated by Anne Heritage

    27 1-861

      commentaries translated by Anne Heritage

    289 Concordance

Ulrike Gauss

    293 Interview with Henri Deschamps in Paris,

      16 June 2000

      transcribed from french by Fran~oise Joly, translated into english by Anne Heritage

    301 Biography

    303 Bibliography