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    • Pablo Picasso
    Lot 122

    Pablo Picasso

    Femme au fauteuil No. 1 (d'après le rouge)

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    GBP 37,500

    Estimate

    GBP 30,000 - GBP 50,000

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    Pablo Picasso
    Femme au fauteuil No. 1 (d'après le rouge)
    lithograph, 1948, on Arches wove paper, a proof impression of the fifth state (of eleven), inscribed in pencil by Fernand Mourlot with his reference M 134, 6° état verso, there were also six proofs reserved for the artist and printer, the full sheet, a deckle edge at right, in very good condition
    Image 696 x 546 mm., Sheet 760 x 564 mm.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Mourlot 134


    Lot Essay

    In the revised catalogue raisonné of Picasso's lithographs (2009), the present version is described as the fifth, not the sixth state.

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    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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