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In August 1948 Picasso left for Poland with Paul Eduard to attend the communist-sponsored Peace Conference. Acclaimed with great enthusiasm he spent two weeks in Warsaw and Kracow and was decorated by the Prendant of the Republic. Returning to France he brought an embroidered Polish blouse for Françoise. In November Françoise posed in the blouse and is the subject of the greatest of the lithographs, The Armchair Woman. The hieratic portraits recall the ancestor portraits of the Chinese and renaissance pictures. With quiet strength, the poses subtly change from realism to abstraction all the time referring back to the stylized portraiture of Cranach.

PABLO PICASSO

The Armchair Woman: Two Impressions (M. 133; not in B.)

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PABLO PICASSO
The Armchair Woman: Two Impressions (M. 133; not in B.)
two lithographs in colors, 1948, on Arches, Mourlot's first state (of two), Mourlot calls for five proofs of both, there was no edition in this state, first inscribed 'FM 6/6' and 'M 133 1e etat' in pencil on the reverse, second inscribed 'M 133 bis 1e etat sans noir' in pencil on the reverse, both the full sheets, the palest time staining, one with a few soft handling creases, one with pale foxing on the reverse, otherwise both in very good condition, both framed
S. 25 5/8 x 19 11/16 in. (658 x 501 mm.);
S. 25 7/8 x 19 5/8 in. (657 x 498 mm.) (2)

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