Lot 207
  • 207

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Grand tĂȘte de femme au chapeau ornĂ©
  • Signed Picasso (lower right); dated 22.8.69. (lower center)
  • Linoleum cut printed in colors 
  • Plate: 25 1/8 by 21 in.; 63.8 by 53.3 cm
  • Sheet: 29 5/8 by 24 1/2 in.; 75.2 by 59.6 cm

Provenance

Continental Art Agency Ltd. (Leslie Arky), West Vancouver
Acquired from the above on October 19, 1972

Literature

Georges Bloch, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié 1904-1967, vol. I, Berne, 1968, no. 1077, illustration of another example p. 225
Donald Karshan, Picasso Linocuts 1958-1963, New York, 1968, illustration of another example p. 71
Brigitte Baer, Picasso Peintre graveur. 1959-1965, vol. V, Berne, 1989, no. 1317
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolores, Drawings and Sculpture. The Complete Linoleum Cuts, 1939-1968, San Francisco, 2012, no. L-138, illustration of another example p. 178

Condition

Aside from the numbered edition of 50. With full margins. Colors fresh and strong. In good condition apart from slight discoloration in the margins, small water stains in lower sheet edge, a few handling creases, tiny skinned spot due to hinging in the extreme left sheet edge, verso, strong discoloration on the verso.
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