Lot 45
  • 45

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Portrait de famille
  • Dated 30.9.62 (upper left)
  • Lithograph and pencil on paper
  • 19 3/4 by 26 in.
  • 50.1 by 66 cm

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Marina Picasso (the artist’s granddaughter; acquired from the above)

Exhibited

London, Fischer Fine Art, Ltd., Pablo Picasso, Drawings from the Marina Picasso Collection, 1984, no. 42, illustrated in the catalogue
Tokyo, Seibu Art Forum & Ohtsu, Seibu Hall, Pablo Picasso, Collection Marina Picasso, 1990-91, no. 32, illustrated in the catalogue
Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Picasso the Draughtsman, 103 Works from the Marina Picasso Collection, 1993, no. 97
Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Picasso versus Rusiñol, 2010, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue 

Literature

Fernand Mourlot, Picasso Lithographe, Paris, 1970, no. 387, illustration of the lithograph p. 286
Marilyn McCully, Picasso, Painter and Sculptor in Clay, London, 1998, fig. 51, illustrated p. 251 

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper which has not been laid down. The right and left edges are deckled. There is a very minor spot of foxing in the center of the composition. A minor spot of paper discolouration to the upper left and upper right edges and another area in the lower center of the composition. Some uniform fading to paper commensurate with age. This work is in overall very good original condition.
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