Lot 499 D

Pablo Picasso - Deux Têtes de Femme de Face

Auction 1059 - overview Cologne
27.11.2015, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
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Pablo Picasso

Deux Têtes de Femme de Face
1945

Etching on wove paper with watermark "A[RCHES]" 29.3 x 16.2 cm (38.5 x 25 cm) Inscribed 'épreuve d'état' in chalk by the artist in the lower margin. Trial proof with wide margins, one of several trial proofs on various papers before the steel-facing of the copper plate and the signed edition of 25. Published as a supplement to the special edition, numbered 1-25, by Paul Eluard, À Pablo Picasso, Éditions des Trois Collines, Geneva 1945. Printed by Lacourière, Paris. - The upper and lower margin with horizontal traces of folds.

Very rare trial proof of the first state before the steel-facing and the small signed edition. - The plate was reduced to the lower depiction for the following second state (cf. Baer 701 II A. resp. B.)

Catalogue Raisonné

Baer 701 I a (of II B b), possibly the last mentioned trial proof; Bloch 373; cf. Cramer Books 43