Here are 20 images from the exhibition ‘Picasso and Paper‘ which was held at the Cleveland Museum of Art from Dec 8 2024 to March 23 2025. I was particularly taken by the linocuts. Above is ‘Still Life Under a Lamp’, created in Mougins in March 1962.

According to the exhibition notes:

The print was created using a variation of the linocut technique that Picasso developed himself. He did so because he found the traditional process – which involves carefully lining up and printing a different linoleum block for each colour – too laborious. Instead he cut away areas of a single block and reprinted each colour as he went. Although this method removed the need for careful alignment, it presented its own challenges: a single mistake could ruin the entire edition.

Below is ‘Fauns and Goat’, created in Cannes in November 1959 and below that ‘Luncheon on the Grass’ after Manet, I, also created in Mougins, between January 26 and March 13, 1962.

Seventeen more below.

And the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Exhibit shots from March 14, 2025.