Image: Image reproduction rights managed by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; institutional source link provided
View source →Pablo Picasso, 1950
Medium
transfer lithograph
Dimensions
Overall: 32 x 51.6 cm (12 5/8 x 20 5/16 in.)
Style
Late Picasso
Decade
1950s
The official Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio record identifies Paloma and Claude (cover design for Picasso's Lithographs II) as a Pablo Picasso artwork, dated 1950, in transfer lithograph. To create the portrait of his two children seen here, Picasso applied lithographic ink directly to a printing stone using his fingers. He experimented with the technique during the print’s creation, wiping the material in sweeping marks to depict his daughter, Paloma, and layering his fingerprints for the image of his son, Claude. The vertical border between the pair suggests the work’s intended use as the cover of a book about Picasso’s lithographs.
Paloma and Claude (cover design for Picasso's Lithographs II) is grouped here under Late Period for gallery navigation based on the date published by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. This period label is interpretive context, not a replacement for the cited primary object record. The holding collection is documented by the cited institutional source.
2026 Estimated Value
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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