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For local visitors to Badcock's Gallery in Newlyn, the print likely to
promote most interest among the 40 or so prints by Picasso it is now
showing is almost certain to be the lithograph World Without
Weapons.Created by the world-famous artist in 1962 as a symbol for the
World Congress of Disarmament and Peace held in Moscow, this particular
print, on loan from her family for the occasion, was presented to the
late Newlyn-based author Judith Cook when she attended the congress.
An
early, committed campaigner, it will be remembered that the
indefatigable Judith Cook, carrying her baby son Nicholas, went to both
Moscow and Washington to protest against nuclear weapons.
As a
result of these visits, plus the articles she contributed to The
Guardian for its women's page at the time, the anti-nuclear
organisation Voice for Women was founded.
While the presence in
Newlyn of so many prints by Picasso may surprise, it is but part of the
ongoing series of print exhibitions by celebrated artists which
Badcock's Gallery is promoting.
It has already shown prints by Matisse and Chagall.
Just
as the prints in those exhibitions were originals, so the prints in
this exhibition are by none other than Pablo Picasso himself.
From
the lithographs in his series La Comedie Humaine to the etchings in his
series Lysistrata: from an engraving on copper, Les Graces, to an
offset lithograph, Toros y Toreros, they emphasise the recognised
importance of print-making in Picasso's creative life, and the fact
that his prints had considerable influence upon the artists of his time.
Not
to be missed, a rare opportunity not only to see so many of Picasso's
prints in one place at any one time, but also to become the proud owner
of one, this exhibition of prints by the one and only Picasso is at
Badcock's Gallery, The Strand, Newlyn, until November 21.
WESTERN MORNING NEWS
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