PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973
Málaga 1881- 1973 Mougins (Spanish)
Title: Woman in an Armchair with a Guitarist | Femme dans un Fauteuil et Guitariste, 1959
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Linocut in Colours on Arches Wove Paper
Paper size: 62 x 75 cm. / 24.4 x 29.5 in.
Image size: 53.2 x 64.2 cm. / 20.9 x 25.3 in.
Additional Information: This original linocut is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Picasso” at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 50, at the lower left corner. There were also approximately 20 artist’s proofs aside from the standard edition.
It was printed by Hidalgo Arnéra, Vallauris in 1959 and published by Galerie L. Leiris, Paris in 1960.
Provenance: Copenhagen: Bruun Rasmussen Kunstauktioner, 8th October 2007, lot 38, page 43, sold for 275,000 DKK (over $52,000)
Private collection, UK
Literature:
Bloch, G. (1968). Pablo Picasso: Tome I, Catalogue of the Printed Graphic Work 1904-67, Bern: Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein.
Reference: Bloch 917
2. Baer, B. (1992). Picasso: Peintre-Graveur, Tome II, Catalogue Raisonne de l’OEuvre Grave. Bern: Editions Kornfeld.
Reference: Baer 1232
Condition: Very good condition. Minor staining along the lower sheet edge.
PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973
Málaga 1881-1973 Mougins (Spanish)
Title: Venus and Cupid | Venus et l’Amour, 1965
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Aquatint on Richard de Bas Wove Paper
Paper size: 43 x 51 cm. / 17 x 20.7 in.
Image size: 27 x 38 cm. / 10.6 x 15 in.
Additional Information: This aquatint is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Picasso” at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 50, at the lower left margin.
It was created by Picasso on 10th March 1965.
It was printed in1965 in a limited edition of 50 signed and numbered impressions.
The paper bears the Richard de Bas watermark.
Provenance: Private collection, Oregon, USA
Literature:
1. Baer, B. (1994). Picasso: Peintre-Graveur, Tome IV, Catalogue Raisonne de l’OEuvre Grave et des Monotypes, 1959-1965. Bern: Editions Kornfeld. Reference.
Reference: Baer 1196.
2. Bloch, G. (1971). Pablo Picasso: Tome I. Catalogue of the Printed Graphic Work 1904-1967. Bern: Edition Kornfeld et Klipstein.
Reference: Bloch 1214.
Condition: Very good condition.
PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973
Málaga 1881-1973 Mougins (Spanish)
Title: Painter in Half-figure and Reclining Model | Peintre en demi-figure et modele allongè, 1966
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Aquatint on BFK Rives Wove Paper
Paper size: 41.3 x 49.7 cm. / 16.3 x 19.6 in.
Image size: 27 x 37.5 cm. / 10.6 x 14.7 in.
Additional Information: This aquatint is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Picasso” at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 50, at the lower left margin.
It was created by Picasso on 3rd January 1966.
It was printed in 1966 in a limited edition of 50 signed and numbered impressions.
The paper bears the BFK Rives watermark.
Literature:
1. Baer, B. (1994). Picasso: Peintre-Graveur, Tome IV, Catalogue Raisonne de l’OEuvre Grave et des Monotypes, 1959-1965. Bern: Editions Kornfeld. Reference.
Reference: Baer 1403.
2. Bloch, G. (1971). Pablo Picasso: Tome I. Catalogue of the Printed Graphic Work 1904-1967. Bern: Edition Kornfeld et Klipstein.
Reference: Bloch 1381.
Condition: Excellent condition.
PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973
Málaga 1881- 1973 Mougins (Spanish)
Title: The Painter and his Model | Le peintre et son modèle, 1964
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching and Aquatint on Richard de Bas Wove Paper
Paper size: 46 x 61.5 cm. / 18 x 24.2 in.
Image size: 32 x 47 cm. / 12.6 x 18.5 in.
Additional Information: This original etching and aquatint is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Picasso” at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 50, at the lower left margin.
It is dated in the plate “5.2.64” (5th February 1964).
It was printed in 1964 in an edition of 50 signed and numbered impressions.
The paper bears the Auvergne Richard de Bas watermark in the lower right corner.
Literature:
1. Bloch, G. (1968). Pablo Picasso: Tome I, Catalogue of the Printed Graphic Work 1904-67. Bern: Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein.
Reference: Bloch 1158
2. Baer, B. (1994). Picasso: Peintre-Graveur, Tome IV, Catalogue Raisonne de l’OEuvre Grave et des Monotypes, 1959-1965. Bern: Editions Kornfeld.
Reference: Baer 1146
Condition: Good condition. Time-staining around the image. Areas of foxing across the sheet. Remnants of hinging and adhesive tape along the upper sheet edge, verso.
PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973
Málaga 1881-1973 Mougins (Spanish)
Title: Divers | Plongeurs, 1956
Technique: Original Stamped Black Oxide Glazed White Earthenware Plate
Size (Diameter): 18.4 cm. / 7.2 in.
Additional Information: This original ceramic plaque was realised by the artist, Pablo Picasso.
This work was conceived in 1956 and executed in an edition of 500.
With the ‘Empreinte Originale de Picasso’ and ‘Madoura Plein Feu’ pottery stamps on the underside.
Note: While in Golfe Juan in In 1946 Picasso decided, with his friend Louis Fort, to visit the pottery exhibition in Vallauris. He took a particular interest in the Madoura stand and asked to be introduced to the owners – Suzanne and Georges Ramié. They invited him to their Madoura Pottery workshop in Vallauris. There he made three pieces which he left to dry and bake.
A year later Picasso returned to see how the pieces had turned out. He was delighted with the quality of the work and asked if he could make more. They agreed and an area of the workshop was arranged especially for him. Immediately, he began to work, inspired by his portfolio of sketches. So began a long and very productive partnership between Picasso and Madoura. The whole Madoura team became part of the creative process. They made sure Picasso had all the materials he needed and assisted in producing perfectly finished works of art. Suzanne Ramié shared her vast experience, teaching him all the secrets of ceramics.
The ceramics ranged from vases, sculptures, plaques to even a complete dinner service. The familiar themes included bullfighting scenes, portraits and nature – goats, birds, and fish. In 24 years over 633 pieces were created in limited editions all engraved with the Madoura stamp.
Literature:
1. Bloch, G. (1972). Pablo Picasso, Catalogue de l’oeuvre gravé céramique 1949-1971. Volume III. Bern: Kornfeld & Klipstein
Reference: Bloch 74
2. Ramié, A. (1988). Picasso, Catalogue of the Edited Ceramic Works 1947-1971, Vallauris: Madoura.
Reference: Ramié 377
Condition: Excellent condition. A very minor area of glaze removed on the inner rim of the plate, verso.
PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973
Málaga 1881- 1973 Mougins (Spanish)
Title: Smoker with a Man | Fumeur avec un homme, 1964
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching and Aquatint on Richard de Bas Auvergne Handmade Laid Paper
Paper size: 57 x 41 cm. / 22.4 x 16.1 in.
Image size: 41.5 x 32 cm. / 16.3 x 12.6 in.
Additional Information: This original etching and aquatint is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Picasso” at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 50, at the lower left margin.
It is dated in the plate 7.9.64.II.
It was printed in 1964 by the Crommelynck Brothers, Paris and published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris in an edition of 50 signed and numbered impressions.
The paper bears the Richard de Bas watermark in the lower margin and the Auvergne a la Main watermark in the upper margin.
Literature:
1. Bloch, G. (1968), Pablo Picasso: Tome II, Catalogue of the Printed Graphic Work 1966-69, Bern: Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein.
Reference: Bloch 1174
2. Baer, B. (1992). Picasso: Peintre-Graveur, Tome II, Catalogue Raisonne de l’OEuvre Grave. Bern: Editions Kornfeld.
Reference: Baer 1174
Condition: Very good condition. Very pale staining around the image.
PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973
Málaga 1881-1973 Mougins (Spanish)
Title: The Barbarous Dance (in Front of Salomé and Hérod), from: Saltimbanques Suite | La Danse barbare [devant Salomé et Hérode]: La Suite des Saltimbanques, 1905
Technique: Original Drypoint on Van Gelder Zonen Wove Paper
Paper size: 33 x 51 cm. / 26 x 20.1 in.
Image size: 18.5 x 23.2 cm. / 7.3 x 9.1 in.
Additional Information: This is an original drypoint by the artist Pablo Picasso.
It was realised in 1905 in a limited edition of 250 unsigned and unnumbered impressions. A further 27 or 29 proofs were printed on Japan Ancien paper.
This is the 15th plate in Picasso’s “La Suite des Saltimbanques”, Picasso’s first ever series of etchings.
The suite was published in 1913 by Ambroise Vollard and printed by Louis Fort, Paris.
The paper bears the Van Gelder Zonen watermark in the upper left margin.
Note:
In 1905, Pablo Picasso painted the masterpiece “La Famille des Saltimbanques”, today considered as the crucial piece of his pink period. The painting depicts six saltimbanques, a kind of itinerant circus performer, in a desolate landscape. The composition groups them together, but they do not seem connected to each other and are not looking at each other.
It was painted during a period from late 1904 to early 1906, when Picasso explored themes using the saltimbanque. Picasso frequently attended the Cirque Médrano in Montmartre. Critics have suggested that the Family of Saltimbanques is a covert group portrait of Picasso and his circle, symbolized as poor, independent, and isolated.
Our etching together with the rest of the etchings in the “La Suite des Saltimbanques” are directly inspired by this theme.
Other impressions of this subject can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modert Art (MoMA), New York, the Art Institute of Chicago and The High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia.
Literature:
1. Bloch, G. (1968), Pablo Picasso: Tome I, Catalogue of the printed graphic work 1904-1967. Bern: Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein.
Reference: Bloch 15
2. Baer, B. (1992). Picasso: Peintre-Graveur, Tome II, Catalogue Raisonne de l’OEuvre Grave. Bern: Editions Kornfeld.
Reference: Baer 18
Condition: Excellent condition. Very minor toning at the right sheet edge.
PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973
Málaga 1881-1973 Mougins (Spanish)
Title: David and Bathsheba (After Lucas Cranach) II | David et Bethsabée (d’après Lucas Cranach) II, 1947
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph on Arches Wove Paper
Paper size: 66 x 50 cm. / 26 x 19.7 in.
Additional Information: This lithograph is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Picasso” at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil, from the edition of 50 at the lower left margin.
It is dated in the plate “Dimanche 30 Mars 1947” [Sunday 30th March 1947].
It was created by Picasso on the 30th March 1947 by applying pen and ink wash to zinc plate and using a scraper. It was printed by Mourlot in the same year in a limited edition of 50 impressions. There were also six artist’s proofs.
This impression is the second state of ten. Only the second and fourth states were published as editions of 50. The work progressively becomes darker and more abstracted through the creative process.
The paper bears the Arches watermark.
Other impressions of this subject are held by the Art Institute of Chicago and Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, United States of America.
Note:
Lucas Cranach was one of the main Old Master artist’s to have provided inspiration for Picasso. The artist was first introduced to the magnificent paintings by Cranach through his dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, who would sporadically send postcards and exhibition catalogues of Cranach’s masterpieces from across Europe. On this occasion Picasso received a black and white exhibition catalogue from an exhibition in Berlin, which had included a photograph of Lucas Cranach’s David and Bathsheba painted in 1534.
Literature:
1. Mourlot, F. (2009). Picasso Project: Picasso. The Lithographic Work. Volume II. 1949-1969. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy.
Reference: Mourlot 109 (Second State).
2. Bloch, G. (1971). Pablo Picasso: Tome I. Catalogue of the Printed Graphic Work 1904-1967. Bern: Edition Kornfeld et Klipstein.
Reference: Bloch 440
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Title: Collection of Greeting Cards, 1940s-1970s
Technique: Original Lithographs in Colours on Wove Papers
Paper size: 34 x 22 cm. / 13.4 x 8.7 in.
Additional Information: Five greeting cards with lithographs in colours as frontispiece for Galerie Maeght and one greeting card for Galerie Louise Leiris.
The collection includes:
Picasso Dessins 1903-1907, 25th May 1954, Galerie Louise Leiris
Miró Dessins, 16th November 1971, Galerie Maeght
Reybeyrolle – Les Guerilleros, 19 March 1969, Galerie Maeght
Miró – Album 13, 2nd June 1950, Galerie Maeght
Sur 4 Murs, 15 April 1947, Galerie Maeght
Ubac, 7th March 1972, Galerie Maeght
Condition: Very good condition. Soft creasing and minor staining.
Picasso (1881- 1973) was introduced to art in his early childhood by his father who was an art professor at the Academy in Barcelona. Picasso´s early paintings from Paris are influenced by Toulouse-Lautrec, Honoré Daumier and Paul Gauguin. An interest in Art Nouveau and Symbolism culminated in Picasso´s ´blue period´ in which he concentrated on the depiction of suffering, haggard, slightly anaemic people, reflecting the fin-de-siècle mood of pessimism. In Paris Picasso´s contact with innovative art circles led to a new and different style: the ´pink period´, which lasted from 1904 to 1906. The ´Demoiselles d´Avignon´ of 1907 mark the beginning of his Cubist period in which he exceeded the classical form. The works produced between 1909 and 1912 are considered analytically Cubist: The picture surface is divid
The ´Demoiselles d´Avignon´ of 1907 mark the beginning of his Cubist period in which he exceeded the classical form. The works produced between 1909 and 1912 are considered analytically Cubist: The picture surface is divid. The ´Demoiselles d´Avignon´ of 1907 mark the beginning of his Cubist period in which he exceeded the classical form. The works produced between 1909 and 1912 are considered analytically Cubist: The picture surface is divid
