Hidalgo Arnéra's printing press with a Pablo Picasso linocut. Vallauris 1960. - Photo by Edward Quinn

Hidalgo Arnéra's printing press with a Pablo Picasso linocut. Vallauris 1960.

A Pablo Picasso linocut is secured on the bed of Hidalgo Arnéra's printing press in Vallauris, 1960. A heavy roller is positioned over the intricately carved block, its stylized design illuminated by dramatic, high-contrast light. Caught between the roller and the printing surface, a sheet of paper curls upward. The photograph's deep shadows and sharp highlights capture the gleaming surfaces of the machine, the paper, and the raised areas of the block within the workshop setting.


Artworks:

  • "Deux femmes (Deux femmes avec un vase à fleurs)", 1959. Bloch.I:915; Geiser/Baer:1239
  • Abbreviations: see Bibliography


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