Linoleum Cut: Bacchanals, Women, Bulls and Bullfighters Picasso "wanted to create prints in which color would be given its due; until now it had played a secondary role in his graphic work, including his lithographs… As was to be expected, judging from his painting, sculpture, lithographs, ceramics, or aquatints, he immediately achieved highly original results, and the linoleum cuts are to be compared only with earlier creations by his own hand." —William Boek, Introduction