Lot 53
  • 53

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Femme au fauteuil No. 1 (M. 134; not in B.)
  • Lithograph, 1948

  • Sheet: 762 by 560mm; 30 by 22 1/8 in
Lithograph, 1948, Mourlot's eighth state (of eleven), initialled in pencil by Fernand Mourlot, inscribed with hir reference 134, definitif and numbered 6/6 verso, one of six proofs reserved for the artist and the printer (aside from the edition of 50), on Arches wove paper

Condition

The full sheet, a deckle at at left and right, in generally good condition apart from uneven overall paper discoloration and foxing recto and verso, some of the fox marks are quite acute and the dicoloration is strong in places especially verso, inscribed 134 in lower margin, unframed
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