Lot Essay
With the original certificate of authenticity from François Hugo.
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Visage de faune
Details
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Visage de faune
dated '28.6.55' (upper right); stamped with the signature and numbered 'Picasso 16/20' (on the reverse); stamped with the goldsmith's mark and the French assay mark for silver and numbered '2068-1488' (on the lower reverse rim)
silver repoussé plate
Diameter: 10½ in. (26.7 cm.); on the diagonal
Conceived in 1955 and executed in silver in a numbered edition of 20 plus two exemplaire d'artiste and two exemplaire d'auteur.
With original wooden case.
Visage de faune
dated '28.6.55' (upper right); stamped with the signature and numbered 'Picasso 16/20' (on the reverse); stamped with the goldsmith's mark and the French assay mark for silver and numbered '2068-1488' (on the lower reverse rim)
silver repoussé plate
Diameter: 10½ in. (26.7 cm.); on the diagonal
Conceived in 1955 and executed in silver in a numbered edition of 20 plus two exemplaire d'artiste and two exemplaire d'auteur.
With original wooden case.
Provenance
Private collection, France, by whom acquired directly from François Hugo.
Literature
C. Siaud, P. Hugo, Bijoux d'artistes, Hommage à François Hugo orfèvre, Aix-en-Provence, 2001, no. 1409 (illustrated p. 148).
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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