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Pablo PICASSO (after)
"Mother and Child"
Original Jacomet stencil.
Date: circa 1950
Signed in the plate lower left.
Dimensions without margins: 45.5 x 30.5 cm
Dimensions with margins: 55 x 40 cm
Subject: A woman and a child walking barefoot by the sea. The silhouettes, filled with melancholy, reflect poverty and solitude.
Style: Dominated by cool tones (blues and greys) with some touches of brown and ochre. The woman is wrapped in a large shawl, while the child, dressed in a simple tunic, stands close to her.
Atmosphere: The scene conveys a deep humanity and restrained sadness, typical of the Blue Period, when Picasso focused on outcasts and figures of misery.
Jacomet stencil technique: This process, directed by the Jacomet workshop in Paris, aimed to faithfully reproduce the original colors and textures using multiple stencils and applications of gouache. These limited edition prints are now highly sought after by collectors, as they reproduce Picasso’s painterly quality with exceptional fidelity.
This Jacomet stencil was created after a work from Picasso’s Blue Period:
it is "Mother and Child by the Sea" (1902–1903), now housed in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Painted during the Blue Period, this composition belongs to a series in which Picasso depicted women, often mothers, and children in profoundly melancholic attitudes.
Daniel Jacomet
is an artist who has created a type of stencil that now bears his name, a stencil almost identical to the original artwork. From 1921, he worked with the greatest artists of his time: Picasso, Braque, Chagall, Rouault, Dufy, Miro etc ... His children, André, Pierre and Marie-Jeanne, will take over. Then Bruno, his grandson, who will work with Olivier Debré, Herve Di Rosa, Gerard Garouste, Edouardo Arroyo, Jan Voss, ...
Jacomet stencil
This is a stencil print. The artist applies color by hand with a round brush in cardboard or zinc cutouts, to color surfaces that may even be in color gradient. It is about putting color on a printed pattern in black and white in lithography or collotype. The artist can therefore make several copies with the same patterns. This technique allows the artist to create an edition almost identical to the original artworks. Many professionals in the art world were caught by these perfect prints. There are still "Jacomet" which are considered original works today.
The work presented is called "facsimile" because it faithfully reproduces the original work and this most often with the original mediums. After making a very precise cut, the artist will color the stencil using colors and materials similar to the original: watercolor, gouache, ink, etc ... The signature is an integral part of the stencil. The paper can also be recreated. The printing and coloring were entirely done in the Jacomet studio.
