Pablo Picasso

Jacqueline de Profil à Droite, by Pablo Picasso, 1958.

• Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973).
• Lithograph on Arches wove paper.
• Hand signed and numbered.
• Part of an edition of 50, this being 20.
• Printed by Mourlot, 1958-59.
• Published by Galerie Louise Leiris, 1958-59.
• This work is presented framed.

Signed "Picasso" in graphite at the lower right of the image, numbered "20/50" at the lower left.

Having relocated to the Côte d’Azur with Françoise Gilot, in the late 1940s, Picasso met Jacqueline in summer 1952 in the Madoura pottery workshops. By this time, the artist’s relationship with Gilot was deteriorating, and Jacqueline quickly replaced her in his affections, becoming his lover, muse and eventually his wife—the last great female presence in Picasso’s life and the subject of innumerable paintings and prints produced in the 1950s and 1960s. 

Picasso embarked on a series of portraits of Jacqueline in the summer of 1955. That December, he created the first state of six of the series of prints to which Jacqueline en profil à Droite belongs. The plates were transported to Mourlot’s workshop in Paris so that proofs could be printed and then taken back to Picasso in the south for his scrutiny. More than a year passed before the artist resumed work on the plates. On December 27, 1958, he developed them in one day, taking some through as many as three states.

Hand signed and numbered.

Bloch, Georges. Picasso: Catalogue de l'œuvre gravé et lithographié, 1904–1967. Vol. 1. Berne: Kornfeld et Klipstein, 1968. Reference: 854.

Gauss, Ulrike, editor. Pablo Picasso: Lithographs. Contributions by Felix Reuße et al., Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2000. Reference: 742.

Mourlot, Fernand. Picasso Lithographe: Tome IV (1956–1963). André Sauret, Éditions du Livre, 1964. Reference: 310.