Rarity: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ULTRA RARE
Limited edition: 91 pieces produced
Nib size: Medium
Accessories: Complete of all the original boxes and papers
Conditions: New, never inked
Pablo Picasso – The Genius of the Century
Pablo Picasso, born in Málaga in 1881, started to paint at the early age of seven and a mere two years later completed his first oil painting, “Le Picador”. It was the start of an unequalled artistic career whose beginnings got underway in his fatherʼs painting classes. Its first highlights occurred with his blue and pink period from 1901 to 1906, when Picasso combined the achievements of Art Nouveau with the image contents of Symbolism to result in a tangible formula. Only one year later, Picasso and his work Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), characterised by geometric cshape, became the spiritual father of Cubism and a pioneer of modernism. Until his death in 1973 in Mougins, France, the artistic genius of the twentieth century produced more than 50,000 works ranging from drawings to ceramics and from poetry to sculpture and painting. These works include the dove of peace and his most famous work, “Guernica”, which depicted the destruction of the city of the same name during the Spanish Civil War. It was displayed for the first time at the International Fair in Paris in 1937, where it received the highest accolades. Even today, we are still impressed by the unique language of the shapes that will endure forever, along with their legendary creator, Pablo Picasso. Just as the painter Picasso, the poet Picasso also had a close connection between his art subjects and Spain. With untamed passion and near-insanely associative images, he built a literary legancy of unique value between 1935 and 1959. Refusing to be bound any classification and far from grammatical rules, this extraordinary artist wrote three plays , as well as 300 poem that were created in diary notes and range from simple prose to expressionist short texts. Picasso’s impressive literary legancy was published for the first time in 1973, taking the reader onto a fascinating journey to sensual levels of unique poetry and surprising diversity based on something very special: the love of the Painter of the century for the written word.
Design Features
- The skeletonised 750 solid gold cap offers the view on the Medium (M) rhodium-plated 18K gold nib and is engraved with Picasso’s comments and sketches on his work “Portrait de jeune fille”. This famous piece of art cap, with the distinctive trait of the portrait being pictured by the artfully crafted clip.
- The cap top is adorned with an embedded Montblanc emblem made if mother-of-pearl.
- The 18 K gold nib is decorated with a fine engraving of Picasso’s famous signet “ojo”. Medium 18K gold nib engraved after Picasso’s drawing, “Ojo.”
- Picasso’s spanish origin is masterfully visualised on the cone: the composition of red lacquered stripes between rings made of 750 solid gold represents the national colours of Spain.
- The barrel made of black precious lacquer is shaped reminiscent of the simple pencils Picasso used for many of his sketches.
- Reminiscent of the years of his life, the Limited Edition Pablo Picasso is limited to 91 pieces worldwide.
- The specimen here offer for sale has never been inked (still with plastic film around nib section). It comes with all original boxes and papers: White outer cardboard, Outer box, red lacquered wood display box, Certificate/Intrnational reply card.
This LE91 fountain pen embodies many iconic features and namely:
- For the very first time MB designed an artisan fountain pen with a long cap. As Montblanc vintage collectors know, this design belongs to Montblanc history (see, for example, the rare Baby-sized MB long cap in black hard rubber), This same design has been adopted more recently (year 2016) on the Marco Polo LE69 (another very successful reference).
- The red lacquer stripes of the cone (blind-cap) will be implicitly remembered on another model, the Patron of Art Limited Edition Peggy Guggenheim.
- Homage to a great artist regarded as one of the most influential artist of the 20th century. One of the most quoted artist of the twentieth century with records broken in major international auctions.
- Multiple specimens were reserved for Spanish market.
