Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

The portrait of Pere Manach is one of my favourite images I hold in my mind.
I came across him one day in a secondhand store. I couldn’t stop looking at him. Unfortunately he was a print, not the original... because when I looked at the details it was revealed as the creation of one Pablo Picasso (to be fair, I may not have been able to afford him if he was the original ;)). I had never seen Pere before, and I was utterly drawn to him.
I had a really interesting conversation recently about the positives and perils of prints and ‘non-originals’ in the art world. For me, It’s a complicated topic. But, I’ll be honest, that day I bought Pere (to be completely accurate, he was an excerpt from a vintage book).
This is my twenty-first century conversation with my treasured book excerpt of Picasso’s 1901 painting. Content, solitary, powerful - here is Pera de Monaco, in dialogue with Pere Manach.

Satin varnish finish