Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Le dormeur

Details
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Le dormeur
stamped with signature and numbered 'Picasso 12/20' (underneath); stamped with the silversmith's mark and the silver mark (along the back edge)
a silver plate
43 cm. diametre
Conceived in 1956 and executed in silver by François Hugo in an edition of 20 (plus 2 épreuves d'artiste).
Provenance
Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & co., Amsterdam.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1977.
Literature
G. Bloch, Pablo Picasso, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé céramique 1949-1971, Bern 1972, vol. III, p. 83, no. 97 (white earthenware version illustrated).
D. Cooper, Picasso, 19 plats en argent par François et Pierre Hugo, Paris 1977, n.p. (another plate illustrated).
A. Ramié, Picasso, Catalogue of the Edited Ceramic Works, 1947-1971, Madoura 1988, p. 176, no. 343 (another version illustrated).
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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To be sold with the original presentation box.

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