Design for a book cover

Details

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Design for a book cover
signed 'Picasso' and numbered 'X' (upper right)
pastel on paper
10½ x 8 3/8 in. (26.5 x 21 cm.)
Executed circa 1965

Provenance

Charles Feld (founder and editor of Les Éditions du cercle d'art), Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Please note that Maya Widmaier-Picasso has also confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Lot Essay

Maya Widmaier-Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Claude Ruiz Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

One of eight known cover designs for the book Le peintre et son modèle, 1965 and Notre Dame de Vie, 1966, published by Les Éditions du cercle d'art, Paris.

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