Sale 7958
London
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29 March 2011
Price realised
GBP 22,500
Estimate
Pablo Picasso La Femme à la Résille (Femme aux Cheveux verts) (cf. B. 612; M. 178ter) lithograph, 1949, on Arches wove paper, an unsigned proof of the fourth state of the black plate, one of six proofs aside from the signed and numbered edition of fifty, initialled and numbered 2/6 in pencil by the printer Fernand Mourlot on the reverse, the full sheet, with deckle edges above and below, in very good condition, framed L., S. 653 x 500 mm.
Provenance
Succession Pablo Picasso, Marina Picasso, with her stamp verso.
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