The Complete Prints of Georges Braque. Catalogue raisonné (original) (raw)

Picasso Lithographs. Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 1 Original Lithographs

The present book constitutes Miguel Orozco's answer to numerous suggestions by readers since the publication of Picasso Litógrafo y militante by the Picasso Foundation in Málaga back in 2016. The main purpose of that book was two-fold. On one hand, to make public the result of years of research and contacts with the main actors in the prints galleries world –particularly those in Paris, most of them coming from the entourage of either Picasso of Fernand Mourlot– to reveal for the first time the true reasons and circumstances of Picasso’s lithographic career, overcoming the painter’s attempts to hide the facts, and particularly Georges Braque’s role in the introduction to Mourlot. Another discovery was a formerly unknown new aesthetic developed by Picasso for years, and his motivations to do it: to mock the Communist Party and its pressure on the painter to adopt socialist realism. The other side of the project was to do the first commented catalogue raisonné of Picasso litographs. According to many readers, the first purpose of the project was undoubtedly achieved. The second purpose of the book, however, remained unfulfilled, as the catalogue raisonné of Picasso's lithographs was not brought to completion. Although most lithographs were described or mentioned in Picasso Litógrafo y militante, only a small portion of them were illustrated, even in the longer English version Picasso lithographer and Activist. A catalogue raisonné implies individual entries for each lithograph, describing dates, measurements, publisher, printer, paper, print-run etc. And this was missing. This is thus the purpose of the present volume, that will be followed by a catalogue of Picasso's lithographs of interpretation.

Picasso Interpretation Prints I : Lithographs Catalogue raisonné

2023

This is the first volume of a new catalogue raisonné of Picasso interpretation prints, devoted to lithographs after Picasso. It contains a total of 801 entries, including signed and numbered editions; posters both with signed and unsigned editions; prints realized in support of communist causes; lithographs of interpretation included in books and livres d’artiste; portfolios with unsigned lithographs and, finally, posthumous lithographs, including 201 from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection.

Picasso Interpretation prints II - Etchings, pochoirs & woodcuts. Catalogue Raisonné

2023

This is the second volume of a new catalogue raisonné of Picasso interpretation prints, devoted to etchings, pochoirs and woodcuts after Picasso. It contains a total of 687 entries, including interpretation etchings by masters like Jacques Villon, Roger Lacourière and Atelier Crommelynck; collotypes and pochoirs by Daniel Jacomet, Guy Spitzer and Atelier Duval; woodcuts by Georges Aubert; and finally prints realized through other printing methods, like Zircongraphy, typography, line block, Dietz-Offizin process and callichromy, the Vercors process.

Picasso. 70 years of book illustration Catalogue raisonné

Picasso. 70 years of book illustration, 2018

Picasso. 70 years of book illustration is a new compendium of all the books illustrated by the painter. It does not aim to replace the prestigious 1983 Cramer catalogue raisonné Pablo Picasso The Illustrated Books. The purpose is rather to complement it by catering for needs that were not in the mind of Patrick Cramer. In this connection, Orozco’s catalog contains 265 entries, versus the 156 of the 1983 compilation, the main characteristic of the 109 added books being that the illustrations they contain are not registered in Georges Bloch’s Pablo Picasso. Catalogue of the printed graphic work, the requirement for a book to make its way to the Cramer. Orozco includes for instance books illustrated with pochoirs after Picasso, both because they constitute an important part of the artist’s graphic production and in view of the fact that Picasso gave the bon à tirer for many or most of the hundreds of pochoirs realized after his works. This was particularly the case with the prints made in the Paris workshop of Daniel Jacomet, his preferred pochoir printer from 1920 (Le Tricorne) to 1972 (Carnet de Paris). Other criteria used by Orozco in deciding what to include are that Picasso knew about the book and approved the inclusion of his illustrations or selected them or that Picasso participated in the production, gave the bon à tirer or designed the cover or interior. By including all these new books, the author hopes to bring a wider perspective on Picasso’s book illustration work. Another purpose of the present book is to provide color visual information on how the books look like, including the covers and slip cases and boxes that house them; the page layout; the interaction between text and prints; and of illustrations other than original prints. It should be recalled that the Cramer catalog only includes photos –mostly black & white–of the original graphics the book contains, neglecting the rest.

Picasso Linocuts. Catalogue Raisonné

Picasso Linocuts. Catalogue Raisonné, 2024

After completing eight volumes devoted to the graphic work of Pablo Picasso: The complete etchings of Pablo Picasso. Volume 1 (1899-1935) The complete etchings of Pablo Picasso Volume 2 1936-1965 The complete etchings of Pablo Picasso. Volume 3 (1966 1972) Catalogue Raisonné of Picasso Posters Picasso. 70 years of book illustration Catalogue raisonné Picasso Lithographs. Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 1 Original Lithographs Picasso Interpretation Prints I : Lithographs Catalogue raisonné Picasso Interpretation prints II - Etchings, pochoirs & woodcuts. Catalogue Raisonné Thew author tackles now the less known aspect of the painter's prints oeuvre: linocuts, which he only cultivated for a short period of his life. However his achievements in this field are among the top of Picasso's creative endeavours. The result of Orozco's work is a catalogue raisonné comprising over 500 entries found in established catalogs, in famous or little know museums, in art galleries and auction sales.

The complete etchings of Pablo Picasso. Volume 1 (1899-1935)

After completing his catalogues raisonnés of other graphic work by Picasso (Catalogue Raisonné of Picasso Posters; Picasso. 70 years of book illustration; Picasso original Lithographs; Picasso Interpretation Lithographs and Picasso Interpretation Etchings, pochoirs & woodcuts) the author tackles now the most complicated part of the series: original etchings. The main difficulty is that, while the painter did the practical totality of his lithographic work with the same printer, Fernand Mourlot, in the case of intaglio he not only worked with top printers like Auguste Delâtre, his son Eugène Delâtre, Louis Fort, Roger Lacourière, Jacques Frélaut and Aldo, Piero and Milan Crommelynck, but during most of his life Picasso had a printing press in his studio. He had bought a small one he installed in his Monmartre studio as early as 1907 and he later had a big one in the basement of La Californie. And he prided himself of pulling many prints with his own hands, both alone and, as we shall see, also in parallel with Delâtre, Fort or Frélaut. We have in the present work incorporated all the previously Bloch catalogued works, but we have also attempted to complete this task incorporating two additional categories. On one hand, we have included, in just the first volume (1899-1935) over three hundred uncatalogued state proofs, because the previous catalogs include in practically all cases only the final state that was commercialized. The second category includes the etchings not included by Bloch, and where possible, we include state proofs of those. Yet another category, of an equivalent level of interest, is that of the prints pulled by Picasso himself, both on his own or in the company of other printers. We apologize nevertheless for the errors this book may (and surely will) contain. In our last updating, completed in June 2024, we have added over seventy prints and tried to limit the number of errors.

The complete etchings of Pablo Picasso. Volume 3 (1966 1972)

This is the third and final volume of Orozco's Catalogue Raisonné of Picasso etchings. After completing his catalogues raisonnés of other graphic work by Picasso the author has tackled here the most complicated part of the series: original etchings. The main difficulty is that, while the painter did the practical totality of his lithographic work with the same printer, Fernand Mourlot, in the case of intaglio he not only worked with top printers like Auguste Delâtre, his son Eugène Delâtre, Louis Fort, Roger Lacourière, Jacques Frélaut and Aldo, Piero and Milan Crommelynck, but during most of his life Picasso had a printing press in his studio. And he prided himself of pulling many prints with his own hands, both alone and, as we shall see, also in parallel with Delâtre, Fort or Frélaut. We have in the present work incorporated all the previously Bloch catalogued works, but we have also attempted to complete this task incorporating two additional categories. On one hand, we have included, in just the first volume (1899-1935) over three hundred uncatalogued state proofs, because the previous catalogs include in practically all cases only the final state that was commercialized. The second category includes the etchings not included by Bloch, and where possible, we include state proofs of those. Yet another category, of an equivalent level of interest, is that of the prints pulled by Picasso himself, both on his own or in the company of other printers. And last, but not least, we have also included many a number of proofs before steel facing of the plates, shown in parallel with the proofs after steel facing. In total, the three volumes include over 3,000 original Picasso etching prints. We apologize nevertheless for the errors these book may (and surely will) contain. In our last updating of the first two volumes, completed in June 2024, we added hundreds of prints and tried to limit the number of errors.

The Prints of Jacques Villon Vol. 2 Lithographs, pochoirs, monotypes

The Prints of Jacques Villon. Vol. 2 Lithographs, pochoirs, monotypes, 2020

After completing the first volume of The prints of Jacques Villon, devoted to the prints of interpretation that the painter did in the 1920s, Miguel Orozco tackles here a more substantial part of Villon's graphic œuvre: the lithographs. As in the first volume, his aim, apart from providing for the first time color visions of the work of the painter, is to overcome the limits of previous attemps to catalogue Villon's prints. In fact, Jacqueline Auberty & Charles Perussaux's "Jacques Villon. Catalogue de son oeuvre gravé" and Colette de Ginestet & Catherine Pouillon's "Jacques Villon. Les estampes et les illustrations" both lack precise dates for many prints, miss others, provide very limited information on each print… and contain not a single color illustration, a serious handicap when dealing with one of the masters of color of the 20th century. Orozco's new catalogue contains a total of 312 entries, many of them uncatalogued so far.

The Orozco Collection of Artist & Illustrated Books. Vol. 1 Picasso

2017

This is volume I of the Catalogue raisonné of the Orozco collection of artist and illustrated books as well as prints. It has a long Introduction: the acknowledgments and advice from the collector, where he pays tribute to the gallerists and dealers that kept the 'livre d'artiste' alive in the last forty years. It describes the pieces of the collection, the circumstances under which tghey were produced by Picasso, references to the museums throughout the world that keep a copy of the piece described, the appropriate catalogue references, their passage through auction houses, etc. and photographs of the pieces.