Picasso, Pablo, Spades (red and yellow), 1959

1959

Original linocut in two colors on Arches paper

53 x 63.7 cm

Signed by the artist lower right

Arnéra print; Galerie Louise Leiris éditeur, Paris 1960

Catalogue raisonné: Bloch 908; Baer 1227: La Pique

The motif of the pike, here in the colors of Spain, belongs to the bullfighting theme, which played an increasingly important role in Picasso’s work from the time he moved to the South of France after the Second World War. He produced numerous linocuts in a variety of Pique (black and beige) colors, details and settings, including Après la pique, La pique cassée and Avant la pique.