May 2022 - Sims Reed Gallery

Sims Reed Gallery at the London Original Print Fair 2022

We are thrilled to be taking part at the 37th Edition of the London Original Print Fair. This year, for the first time, the fair is taking place at Somerset House.

To see our fair list please click here.

The London Original Print Fair is the longest running print fair in the world, founded in 1985 at the Royal Academy of Arts. It is a celebration of printmaking in all its forms, spanning six centuries from the 15th century works of Dürer and his contemporaries to that of emerging contemporary artists. We will be exhibiting works by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Patrick Caulfield, Henry Moore, Peter Doig, Max Ernst, Eduardo Chillida, Howard Hodgkin, Sol Lewitt, Richard Hamilton, Ed Ruscha, Paula Scher, Yves Tanguy, Joe Tilson and others.

Opening times
VIP Opening Wednesday 25th May 6 – 9 pm
Thursday 26th 11am – 8pm
Friday 27th May 11am – 8pm
Saturday 28th May 10am – 6pm
Sunday 29th May 10am – 6pm

If you would like a ticket please email us at gallery@simsreed.com and we would be happy to send you a complimentary pass.

La Célestine by Pablo Picasso – New Acquisition

One of Picasso’s rarest prints, the entire series of 66 etchings for La Célestine on a single large sheet. One of only nine impressions.

This impression is signed Picasso and dated Le 9.9.70 in red crayon, numbered 4/9.

Etching and sugar-lift aquatint, printed by Editions Crommelynck on yellow tinted Rives paper. In excellent condition with deckle edge on four sides.

Sheet size: 75 x 105 (cm); 29 ½ x 41 ¼ (inches)

[Provenance: Given by Picasso to Paul Puaux – Director of the Festival d’Avignon from 1971-79].

For more information please visit our online viewing room.