Expert: Ben Mahmoud - 2/16/2008

Question
Hi, I have a black & white pencil signed print & can't find information on the internet - trying to find information & value.  

Pablo Picasso: Pan
Euro Graphics
Knud Hansen - Offset
c by S.P.A.D.E.M 1963
Printed in Denmark


Answer
I am wondering what the medium is: etching? lithograph?

You say that the work is signed in pencil.  Is the signature, "Picasso?"

Only in the very earliest prints did Picasso sign "Pablo Picasso," and then it was often "Pablo Ruiz Picasso."

From the information you gave me, I would think that the print was done by the Euro Graphics on an offset press.  This would mean that the work is a reproduction of a Picasso print.

I knew a fellow that had pretty much memorized all of Picasso's prints.  He was in Dallas where the museum had an exhibition of reproductions.  These were actual size, and very well done.  The price was $350 a print.  The fellow determined that one of the prints was, in fact, not a reproduction.  He bought it for the $350, and had an original print worth much, much more.

Anyway, back to your print:  I had no trouble finding a number of hits when I put "Euro Graphics" into my search engine.  It seems that they print art prints and posters.  

I have no idea what "Knud Hansen" means.  It could be the printer that ran the off-set press.

As for S.P.A.D.E.M. I found a telling site that involved Claude Picasso, and information about an artists' union.  Here is the URL for that site:
http://www.art-science.com/Avis/au/au5.html


Given the information you have provided, and based on what I have found, I would conjecture that the print you have might have a value i line with a very good poster.

I hope I have been of some help in this matter.

Regards,

Ben Mahmoud