Picasso - Portrait de Jacqueline

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Pablo Picasso 

Portrait de Jacqueline, 1967 

La Flute Double 

Pochoir 

Edition 87/500 

Signature printed separately in green ink 

$17,500.00 

This color Pochoir depicts Jacqueline Roque in a Spanish vale. Before meeting Picasso, she was a saleswoman at Madoura Pottery in Vallauris, where Picasso's ceramic works were created. They married in Vallauris on 2 March 1961. Roque's image began to appear in Picasso's paintings in May 1954. These portraits are characterized by an exaggerated neck and feline face distortions of Roque's features. Eventually her dark eyes and eyebrows, high cheekbones, and classical profile would become familiar symbols in his late paintings. For Pochoir, a printing process using stencils made from sheets of zinc, Picasso collaborated with master printer and inventor Daniel Jacomet. Picasso admired the results that could be achieved with Jacomet’s hybrid invention where he fused the printed collotype process, which uses gelatin added to the dichromate.