Image: Image reproduction rights managed by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; institutional source link provided
View source →Pablo Picasso, 1962
Medium
color linoleum cut
Dimensions
Image: 52.9 x 63.6 cm (20 13/16 x 25 1/16 in.)
Style
Late Picasso
Decade
1960s
The official Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio record identifies Luncheon on the Grass as a Pablo Picasso artwork, dated 1962, in color linoleum cut. As early as 1951, while living in the south of France, Picasso made annual linoleum-cut posters for the expositions and bullfights at Vallauris. In 1958, at the age of 77, Picasso produced his first great multicolored linoleum cut, <em>Portrait of a Lady, after Cranach, the Younger</em>, for which he cut six linoleum blocks, one for each color. These were then carefully registered as they were printed. Finding this a laborious process, Picasso devised an entirely new method of color printing for linoleum cuts, which he used for over 100 prints by 1963. Using a single block and printing the colors one by one from the lightest to the darkest, Picasso cut out more of the design with each color. <em>For Luncheon on the Grass</em> he first cut away the few areas that were to remain white and the entire edition of 50 impressions was printed in beige ink. Next, the areas to remain beige were cut away, and the block was inked with brown, which was printed over the beige. Finally, proceeding in this manner, the black was printed.
Luncheon on the Grass is grouped here under Late Period for gallery navigation based on the date published by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. This period label is interpretive context, not a replacement for the cited primary object record. The holding collection is documented by the cited institutional source.
2026 Estimated Value
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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