Lot 43
  • 43

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Femme au Fauteuil (M. 133; not in B.)
  • Sheet: 650 by 500mm; 25 5/8 by 19 5/8 in
Lithograph printed in colours, 1948, Mourlot's first state (of two), initialled in pencil by Fernand Mourlot, inscribed with his reference 133 and numbered 6/6 verso, one of six proofs reserved for the artist and the printer (there was no edition of this state), on Arches wove paper

Condition

The full sheet printed to the edges in places. The colours fresh and bright, in very good condition apart from a short handling crease to the unprinted area at lower centre of image, unframed.
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