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Buste de jeune femme de trois quarts
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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Buste de jeune femme de trois quarts
woodcut
1906
on INGRES D'ARCHES laid paper
signed in ink, numbered 2⁄15
dated 5 janvier XXXIII in pencil (upper right)
a superb, strong and richly textured impression
printed by the artist in 1933
with wide margins, in very good condition
Block 55,8 x 38,4 cm. (22 x 15 1⁄8 in.)
Sheet 63,2 x 48,2 cm. (24 7⁄8 x 19 in.)
Buste de jeune femme de trois quarts
woodcut
1906
on INGRES D'ARCHES laid paper
signed in ink, numbered 2⁄15
dated 5 janvier XXXIII in pencil (upper right)
a superb, strong and richly textured impression
printed by the artist in 1933
with wide margins, in very good condition
Block 55,8 x 38,4 cm. (22 x 15 1⁄8 in.)
Sheet 63,2 x 48,2 cm. (24 7⁄8 x 19 in.)
Provenance
Georges Bloch (1901-1984), Zürich (his stamp verso; not in Lugt); his sale, Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 21 June 1973, lot 131 (CHF 40,000).
Wolfgang Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London; acquired at the above sale.
Sotheby's, New York, 6 May 1976, lot 296A.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Wolfgang Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London; acquired at the above sale.
Sotheby's, New York, 6 May 1976, lot 296A.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
G. Bloch, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographé 1904-1967, Bern, 1968, vol. I, no. 16, p. 22 (another impression ill.).
B. Baer & B. Geiser, Picasso – Peintre-Graveur, Bern, 1990, no. 212, pp. 349 - 351 B b (this impression cited; another ill.).
B. Baer & B. Geiser, Picasso – Peintre-Graveur, Bern, 1990, no. 212, pp. 349 - 351 B b (this impression cited; another ill.).
Exhibited
Bern, Galerie Kornfeld, Pablo Picasso: Graphische Werke 1904-1972, Oktober - December 1982, no. 22 (ill.).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Pablo Picasso – Der Blinde Minotaurus, February 1997, pp. 20-21 (ill.) & p. 77.
Oslo, Munchmuseet, Den Blinde Minotaurus - grafikk og tegning, November 2002 - February 2003 (no cat.).
Hamburg, Ernst Barlach Haus, Pablo Picasso – Der Stier und das Mädchen – Meisterblätter aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, June – October 2010, no. 6 (ill.), p. 111.
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Pablo Picasso – Der Blinde Minotaurus, February 1997, pp. 20-21 (ill.) & p. 77.
Oslo, Munchmuseet, Den Blinde Minotaurus - grafikk og tegning, November 2002 - February 2003 (no cat.).
Hamburg, Ernst Barlach Haus, Pablo Picasso – Der Stier und das Mädchen – Meisterblätter aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, June – October 2010, no. 6 (ill.), p. 111.
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