Lot 24
  • 24

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
50,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Portrait de Jacqueline au bandeau, accoudée (Femme au Bandeau) (B. 1081; Baer 1306)
  • Signed Picasso lower right and numbered 31/50 lower left
  • Linoleum cut in color
  • image: 350 by 271 mm 13 3/4 by 10 5/8 in
  • sheet: 620 by 443 mm 24 3/8 by 17 1/2 in
Linoleum cut printed in colors, 1962, signed in pencil, numbered 31/50, on Arches wove paper, published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, framed

Condition

The print is in good condition, with margins. Faint mat-stain in margins. A 1/2 inch vertical crease through the figure's proper left eyebrow visible under raking light. (Inconspicuous surface dirt at lower left corner, one miniscule skin spot at extreme upper center edge.) The verso in good condition with mat-stain, a few traces of ink and three skin spots from previous hinging at upper edge.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
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Catalogue Note

By 1972, Picasso was avidly making color linoleum cuts, preferring the ease of cutting this material to  more cumbersome color lithography and favoring the broad planes of color they produced.  His wife Jacqueline became his muse for several lithographs and linoleum cuts in the latter part of his life. The journalist Pepita Dupont has written that “Jacqueline was very sensual, and with Picasso the chemistry was immediate. There was a strong complicity, love and eroticism.  And in her, Picasso found all that a man seeks in a woman: she was at the same time his mistress, his mother, his sister, his accomplice and his muse.”