Pablo Picasso

La Bouteille de Rhum [The Bottle of Rum] by Pablo Picasso, circa 1965.

• Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973).
• Collotype and Pochoir on Wove paper.
• Hand-signed and numbered.
• Edition 151/250.
• This work is presented unframed.

This collotype with pochoir is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Picasso" at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered from the edition of 250, as the lower left margin.

The work was printed in a limited edition of 250 signed and numbered impressions and published by Guy Spitzer Éditeur, Paris.

It is based on an earlier painting from 1911, now part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The paper bears the blindstamp of the publisher in the lower left image and the ink stamp, verso.

Picasso painted Still Life with a Bottle of Rum during the summer of 1911 in Céret, the small town in the French Pyrenees that was called the "spiritual home of Cubism" as it was very popular among Cubist painters. The painting was realised during the most abstract phase of Cubism, known as "high" Analytic Cubism (1910–12). This is one of the first works in which Picasso included letter forms. It has been suggested that the ones shown at the left, LETR, refer to Le Torero (the magazine for bullfighting fans), but they might simply be a pun on letter, French for "word."

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Hand-signed and numbered.

Galerie Binhold, Berlin.

Karl Junker, Sankt Peter Ording, Germany (since 1982).

Antiquariat Matthias Loidl, Unterreit, Germany.

Hansjörg Derx GmbH, Bad Aibling, Germany (since 2001).