Title : Head on Black Background.

Technique : Original Lithograph; Negative print of an etched plate, printed on the lithopress, transferred to zinc, on Vellum Arches paper.

Paper size : 69,5 x 54,5 cm / 27.4 X 21.5 inch.

Additional Information : This Original Lithograph is Hand Signed in White Crayon by Picasso at the lower right margin,
as well as Hand Numbered in pencil "24/50" at the lower left margin.
The work was printed in a limited edition of 50 signed and numbered impressions, as well as 6 artist proofs in 1953.
The work is also dated "Paris, 9. May 53" (1953) in the plate in the upper right corner.

Provenance: Private Collection, Switzerland.

Literature:
Pablo Picasso: Tome I, Catalogue de l'oeuvre Grave et Lithographie 1904 - 1967 (Catalogue of the Printed Graphic Work, 1904 - 1967), by Georges Bloch, edition Kornfeld et Klipstein, Berne 1975.
Reference: Bloch 742.

Condition : Very Good condition. Slight handling creases in the margins. Slight discoloration of the paper.