Lot 230
  • 230

André Villers

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • André Villers
  • Pablo Picasso, 1955
  • signed; signed, annotated Tirage réalisé par moi-même and with the photographer's stamp on the reverse

  • gelatin silver print

  • sheet: 30.5 by 40cm. 12 by 15¾in.
  • Probably executed in the 1980s.
Gelatin silver print, printed later. Signed A. Villers in ink pen in the lower margin at right . On the reverse, signed and annotated Tirage réalisé par moi-même and with the photographer's stamp.

Provenance

Sale: Lempertz, Photographie + Photoarbeiten, 8 May 2004, lot 275
Acquired directly from the above

Literature

André Villers/ Jacques Prévert, Portraits de Picasso, Paris, 1981, ill. n.p.

Condition

The print is in generally good condition, with a strong fold of approx. 6 cm near the lower left edge, in the image (the gelatin layer is broken); a soft fold of approx. 2 cm at the lower left edge, outside the image; the upper right edge is worn; a small handling crease at approx. 5 cm from the upper edge, in the centre.
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