Lot 64
  • 64

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Femme au Fauteuil No. 4 (M. 137; not in B.)
  • Lithograph, 1948

  • Image: 698 by 546mm; 27½ by 21½in
  • Sheet: 760 by 563mm; 29 7/8 by 22 1/8 in
Lithograph, 1948, Mourlot's fifth state (of seven), initialled in pencil by Fernand Mourlot, inscribed with his reference 137, 5e état 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

With full margins, a deckle at left and right edge, in good condition apart from very pale paper discoloration at the extreme edges of the sheet, stray printer's ink to the lower left margin, slight uneven backboard-staining, unframed.
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