Modernist French Oil on Canvas "Boats at Dock" by Laurent Marcel Salinas Picasso's Lithographer 1975

A rare & large oil on canvas painting by Picasso's lithographer, French artist Laurent Marcel Salinas (1913-2010), "Boats at Dock", circa 1975.
Salinas was a very talented artist and became Pablo Picasso's lithographer in 1969 and produced many of Picasso's most famous works into limited edition multiples.  
Salinas, like Picasso had a very long life and career and as Picasso he adopted several styles including Cubism and Fauvism. This painting demonstrates a more mature style, incorporating light & color. The painting is titled "Boats at Dock", this is the original oil painting that was later produced as ten Artist's Proof lithographs and a numbered lithographic edition of 125.
The painting depicts a series of small brightly colored sailboats, side by side and reflected in the water of the dock, the painting is signed lower left "Salinas" and is housed in the original frame, condition is excellent. Salinas not only collaborated with and made prints for Pablo Picasso, he also worked with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ludwig Bemelmans (Illustrator for the Madeline books) and the grandfather of Op Art Victor Vasarley and many more.

Provenance; From the personal collection of Mr. Jeff Figg, acquired directly from the artist and dedicated in French by the artist to the verso.  
            
Laurent Marcel Salinas was born in 1913 in Alexandria of a French mother and an Italian father. Salinas spent his early adult years between France and Egypt. He exhibited frequently at the Alexandria Atelier alongside Egyptian artists such as Mahmud Said and Muhammad magi. Following the 1952 revolution and the Suez Canal crisis, life became increasingly difficult for foreigners residing in Egypt, many were expelled and their assets seized. Marcel's mother and step-father, like many others, left the country. Among the possessions they lost were many of Marcel's early paintings. In the late 1950's, exiled in Paris and desparate for money, Salinas got a job in a lithography workshop. He rapidly became an expert. In 1969 he began work on a lithographic rendition of Picasso's 29 Portraits Imaginaries for the Editions Cercle d'Art that would receive the master's whole-hearted approval, making Salinas' name the only one ever to appear side by side with Picasso's. Salinas continued to paint throughout the last decades of his life, spent between Paris and New York, and between Brussels and St Louis. His prolific output as a painter falls mostly into three categories: landscapes, nudes, and still-lives. While he toyed at various times in his life with different stylistic paradigms, including those of cubism and fauvism, ultimately, Salinas’ commitment was to the poetry of light, color, and form as they were brought to bear on the representation of people, places, and objects. 

Imperial

35 inches high × 28 inches wide × 2 inches deep

Metric

high × wide x deep

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