巴布羅.畢加索

藝術家身後
瑪莉娜．畢加索，巴黎
阿奎維拉畫廊，紐約
現有藏家1989年購自上述人士

「版畫家畢加索：瑪莉娜．畢加索收藏之作品」，美國達拉斯，達拉斯藝術博物館、紐約，布魯克林博物館、底特律，底特律藝術中心與丹佛，丹佛美術館，1983年，品號21，圖錄附彩色圖版
「畢加索與湯瑪斯」，慕尼黑, 湯瑪斯畫廊，1986年，圖錄附圖版
「巴布羅．畢加索的"小型開本"」，紐約， 楊．克魯格爾畫廊，1989年，品號18，圖錄附圖版

波恩哈爾德．蓋瑟爾，《畢加索，畫家與版畫家：版畫作品圖錄 1899-1931》， 瑞士伯恩，1955年，品號200
布里吉特．巴爾，《畢加索版畫作品專題目錄，1899-1931》， 第1冊，伯恩，1990年，提及頁333

Work is in excellent condition. Gouache over etching. T-hinged with Japanese paper at the top corners. A few pinhole sized dots of fiber remnants are visible in a few of the raised green pigments at the bottom of the sheet. Extreme edges of the sheet are slightly time darkened. Colors are fresh and lively.
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Deux femmes and the lot which precedes it, Baigneuse au pouf rouge, form an extraordinary pair of works which Picasso executed in 1930, using his own etchings as his source image and demonstrating his ceaseless inventiveness. Picasso created the etching in 1930, probably between September and October, in Boisgeloup.

In the current work, Picasso engages the subject matter of the original etching - a pair of female nudes (fig. 1). Brigitte Baer writes of this work, "Once again we are faced with the theme of 'two women,' which, for a long time, would displace the Three Graces. Picasso concentrated here on the relationship between two women and their intimacy as they bathe or wash themselves, far from prurient masculine eyes" (B. Baer, Picasso the Printmaker: Graphics from the Marina Picasso Collection, op. cit., p. 57).