rare picasso lithographs on show in london - metal plate etching

Tomorrow at a gallery in London, 16 rare portraits of Pablo Picasso prints will be displayed.
Several of the paintings, depicting Picasso's mistress, are some of the most interesting examples of artists experimenting with flat print.
Most of the work is produced as a continuous phase of the printing process and therefore never intended to be publicly displayed.
Their prices range from £ 12,000 and are highly sought after£150,000.
Flat print, including etching stones or metal plates before pressing them on paper, and covering them with ink, it is said that Picasso took over after visiting the mourning studio printing factory in Paris in late 1940 and in his 1950 s.
The exhibition includes one of Picasso's earliest stone prints, the "female Assisi and Domez", which dates back to 1947.
There are several versions of the work from the "keep" proof to the final number and signature.
All portraits are female, both naked and formal, neo-classical.
His muse.
"Buddha"1 (2nd State)’, 1948)and Marie-
Walter played a lot.
The exhibition will be held tomorrow through April 21 at the Alan Krista Gallery on Cork Street.