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Pablo Picasso
Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide [Eight Works]
Auction Closed
September 18, 06:19 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide [Eight Works]
eight etchings printed in black with black remarques on parchment papers
each sheet (approx.): 33 by 27 cm. 13 by 10⅝ in.
Executed in 1931; these impressions are proofs aside from the total edition of 145, printed by Louis Fort, Paris, published by Albert Skira, Lausanne.
Christie’s, London, The Edward James Collection West Dean Park, 5 June 1986, lots 1825 and 1826; and Christie's, New York, Modern Paintings and Drawings from the Edward James Collection, 6 October 1988, lots 67 and 68
Acquired from the above sales by the present owner
Georges Bloch, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié 1904-1967, Berne, 1998, vol. I, nos. 101, 110, 115, 116, 118, 120, 125, 127, pp. 48-53, other examples illustrated
Brigitte Baer, Picasso Peintre-Graveur, Berne, 1990, vol. I, nos. 145, 154, 159, 160, 162, 164, 169, 171, pp. 246-99, other examples illustrated
Patrick Cramer, Sebastian Goeppert, and H.C. Goeppert-Frank, Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonné, Geneva, 1983, no. 19, pp. 54-57, other examples illustrated
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