Lot 51
  • 51

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Femme au fauteuil No. 1 (M. 134)
  • Lithograph, 1948

  • Image: 695 by 545mm; 27 3/8 by 21½in
  • Sheet: 767 by 560mm; 30 1/8 by 22 1/8 in
Lithograph, 1948, Mourlot's seventh state (of eleven), the first state of transfer from the fifth state, initialled in pencil by Fernand Mourlot, inscribed with his reference 134, 1e état du report 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, a deckle at left and right edges of sheet, in very good condition apart from uneven paper discoloration to the lower, left and top margins, very pale uneven backboard-staining, unframed.
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