PABLO PICASSO

L'Italienne (B. 740; M. 238)

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PABLO PICASSO
L'Italienne (B. 740; M. 238)
offset photolithograph with lithograph, 1953, on Arches, signed in pencil, numbered 49/50, with full margins, pale mat and time staining, otherwise in very good condition
L. 17½ x 13 7/8 in. (445 x 353 mm.)
S. 25 7/8 x 19¾ in. (657 x 502 mm.)

Lot Essay

In 1953, when Picasso was working in Mourlot's atelier, he noticed a zinc plate in the corner, waiting to be polished out. It was for a photolithographic poster to the 1948 exhibition, La Peinture lyonnaise, at the Tuilleries Orangerie, Paris, featuring a painting by Victor Orsel. Picasso reworked the plate into a new composition, sporting a cast of Arcadian figures hovering about the darkly outlined Italian woman.

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