Original collotype print after the earlier Pablo Picasso etching, from the limited edition portfolio "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art". Printed and published by Triton Press, Inc., New York in 1974. Sheet size: 17 x 14 inches; print size: 7-3/4 x 11 inches. Initialed in stone upper right, on Brandywine Cover paper. Shown on a black background. Mint condition new old stock from our immaculate copy of "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art". Collotype is a printing process invented in the mid-19th century famous for producing extremely fine detail and rich tonal gradation, using photograph negatives to create printing plates. Widely used for art books, postcards, and fine art reproductions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, today collotype is commercially uncommon, but still practiced by a few master printers. Collotype prints are admired by photographers, printmakers, and collectors for its unmatched subtlety. One of Picasso's most ambitious, sustained efforts in the field of the fine print was inspired by a plan of Ambroise Vollard which resulted in the famous suite for Vollard, a series of 97 prints and 3 portraits of Vollard himself. Whatever the concept of this work may have been, it never came to fruition. There is no text to accompany the incredible series of etchings, dry points, and aquatint, but there is a text referred to above which catalogues and records the contents of the suite. A goodly portion of the series deals with the sculptor in his studio. The subject, reproduced in this print, depicts the artist at work before his model. The figure on the left is delineated by Picasso as a three-dimensional form, existing in space. The sculptor on the right is rendered in the clean, pure lines of a Greek vase painting.