Pablo Picasso

Linoleum cut printed in white, with extensive hand-additions in China ink, 1964, second (final) state, signed in ink and dated '28.6.64' on the verso, one of five rincée impressions, aside from the numbered edition of 50, on Arches wove paper, with wide margins, in good condition, framed



 

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1964, vol. 24, Paris, 1968, no. 207, illustrated pl. 74
Georges Bloch, Catalogue of the Printed Graphic Work 1904-1967, vol. I, Bern, 1968, no. 910, illustration of the editioned linocut p. 198
The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Sixties II, 1964-1967, San Francisco, 2002, no. 64-203, illustrated p. 61

Artist has applied brush and ink over a linoleum cut print on cream wove paper affixed to a mount at center of left, right and top edges at top two corners. Work is dated in large digits on the verso. Surface is slightly dirty with mat stains at extreme edges. Tape residue at bottom corners of the verso with some associated paper loss. Work is in good condition.
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