Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L’amour fou 2000 handmade paper yields the mottled

handmade paper yields the mottled surface evocative of a weathered sign

Mort interprets the alpine scenes

all of which share a botanical theme unusual in the artist’s earlier output

alongside key works from the 1960s through the 1980s

It was produced by the Los Angeles–based workshop Mixografia using a proprietary process for printing high-relief works they first developed in the 1970s

Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L’amour fou 2000 handmade paper yields the mottledThis poster featuring Marie Thrse accoude (1939) was produced in 2011, in conjunction with Picasso and Marie Thrse: Lamour fou at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. The exhibition, curated by Picasso biographer John Richardson and Marie Thrse Walters granddaughter, art historian Diana Widmaier Picasso, gathered more than eighty paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints inspired by Walter, one of Picassos favorite models and enduring passions.