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I am particularly pleased to highlight Pablo Picasso’s linocut, “Still Life with Bottle | Nature morte à la Bouteille”, 1962. My own passion for prints began with the linocuts of Picasso; it was my first introduction to printmaking, and I was fortunate enough to catalogue the entire archive of Picasso’s linocut printer, Hidalgo Arnéra. This is a wonderful example of the reductionist technique which enamoured Picasso to the medium of lino cutting.

The same manner with which Picasso took to lino cutting, with such gusto, reminds me of the German American artist Lyonel Feininger – who upon …