Prints & Multiples featuring Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q.

Prints & Multiples featuring Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q.

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Property from an Important Private French Collection

Pablo Picasso

Buste de femme, d'après Cranach le jeune

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Lot Closed

September 25, 01:04 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

Buste de femme, d'après Cranach le jeune


signed in red crayon and inscribed Epreuve d'artiste in pencil

linoleum cut printed in colours on Arches wove paper

image: 647 by 535 mm. 25½ by 21 in.

sheet: 767 by 575 mm. 30¼ by 20⅜ in.

Executed in 1958; this impression is one of approximately 15 artist's proofs aside from the numbered edition of 50, printed by Arnéra, Vallauris, published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.

A gift from the Artist to an esteemed psychiatrist, circa 1960s

Thence by descent to the present owner, 1999

Bloch 859; Baer 1053; Picasso Project L-032