Prints & Photographs Part I

Prints & Photographs Part I

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Japan

Pablo Picasso

Les Deux femmes nues (see Bloch 390; Mourlot 16)

Auction Closed

April 14, 05:19 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Japan

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

Les Deux femmes nues (see Bloch 390; Mourlot 16)


lithograph printed in black and bistre on wove paper

sheet: 13 by 18 in. 329 by 456 mm.

Executed in 1946, this impression is a rare proof of the eighth state (of 18), with the second stone printed in bistre (Mourlot incorrectly calls this the fifth state).

Wolfgang Wittrock, Kunsthandel, Dusseldorf

The Collection of Francey and Dr. Martin L. Gecht, New York (acquired from the above in 1983)

Christie's, New York, 3 May 2006 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner