Lot Essay
This most important of the artist's color linocuts was inspired by a postcard sent to Picasso by Daniel Henry Kahnweiler. The Cranach painting of 1664 is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
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Buste de femme d'aprs Cranach le Jeune (B. 859; Ba. 1053)
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PABLO PICASSO
Picasso
Buste de femme d'aprs Cranach le Jeune (B. 859; Ba. 1053)
linocut in colors, 1958, on Arches, the colors fresh, signed in pencil, numbered 47/50, with full margins, pale light- and mat staining, minor skinning along the extreme of the reverse of the top and left extreme margin, otherwise in very good condition, framed
L. 25 x 21 in. (640 x 534 mm.)
Picasso
Buste de femme d'aprs Cranach le Jeune (B. 859; Ba. 1053)
linocut in colors, 1958, on Arches, the colors fresh, signed in pencil, numbered 47/50, with full margins, pale light- and mat staining, minor skinning along the extreme of the reverse of the top and left extreme margin, otherwise in very good condition, framed
L. 25 x 21 in. (640 x 534 mm.)