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Picasso at Mougins: the etchings
2002 · color etching, aquatint and softground etching
Sheet: 57.6 x 76.1 cm (22 11/16 x 29 15/16 in.); Platemark: 45.1 x 60.6 cm (17 3/4 x 23 7/8 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Warrington Colescott
American, 1921
Wisconsin, USA
PrintmakingConceptual ArtContemporaryFiguration
Representation
None documented
4
Institutional Exhibitions
34
Works in Collection
49
Assets Indexed
4
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- • Conceptual Art
- • Contemporary
- • Figuration
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Photography as Printmaking
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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Around the Automobile
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965–1966
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Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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Young American Printmakers
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1953–1954
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Why this artist matters now
Warrington Colescott was an American printmaker and painter known for satirical intaglio prints that combined historical imagery with contemporary social critique. Working primarily in etching and engraving, he created densely layered compositions that merged old master techniques with irreverent humor and political commentary. Based in Wisconsin, Colescott developed a distinctive visual vocabulary that mocked authority, power structures, and cultural pretension through fragmented narratives and grotesque figuration. His work bridged postwar American printmaking and conceptual art, refusing the abstraction that dominated his era in favor of explicit subject matter and narrative complexity.
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