Pablo Picasso
A prolific and tireless innovator of art forms, Pablo Picasso impacted the course of 20th-century art with unparalleled magnitude. Inspired by African and Iberian art and developments in the world around him, Picasso contributed significantly to a number of artistic movements, notably Cubism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, and Expressionism. Along with Georges Braque, Picasso is best known for pioneering Cubism in an attempt to reconcile three-dimensional space with the two-dimensional picture plane, once asking, “Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?” Responding to the Spanish Civil War, he painted his most famous work, Guernica (1937), whose violent images of anguished figures rendered in grisaille made it a definitive work of anti-war art. “Painting is not made to decorate apartments,” he said. “It’s an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.” Picasso’s sizable oeuvre includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets, and costume designs.
Femme au Fauteuil
1948
Lithograph
26.5 x 20 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Mourlot, Paris
Printer, Mourlot, Paris
Catalogue raisonné, Bloch 1354, Mourlot 318
Provenance, Marina Picasso collection
One of six proofs reserved for the artist and the publisher there was no edition
Inscribed, "138, NOIR, de 133 bis, épreuve unique", initialed "FM" and annotated "225 Chine mais tirera aussie en photolythie" in pencil verso.
$45,000
Femme veillant une Dormeuse
1932
Etching and drypoint
17.25 x 11.25 inches (image)
Publisher, Ambrose Vollard, Paris
Printer, Lacouriere, Paris
Catalogue raisonné, Bloch 238
Provenance, Marina Picasso collection
Edition of 55
Stamped estate signature, Marina Picasso collection stamp verso
$7,500
Peintre et Modele
1966
Etching and aquatint
19.75 x 23.25 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Galerie Louis Leiris, Paris
Printer, Atelier Crommelynck, Paris
Catalogue raisonné, Bloch 1440
Provenance, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Los Angeles
Edition of 50
Stamped estate signature, numbered in pencil
$4,500
Visage de Faune Tourmente
1956
Ceramic
15 inches
Catalogue raisonné, Ramie 318
Edition of 100
Stamped Empreinte Originale de Picasso, Madoura Plein Feu, numbered 65/100
Provenance, Galerie Madoura, Vallauris, France
$18,000
Peintre ramassant son Pinceau
1927
Drypoint etching
7.75 x 11 inches (image)
13.5 x 19 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Printer, Louis Fort, Paris
Catalogue raisonné, Bloch 88
Edition of 99
Signed and numbered in bistre ink
Provenance, The collection of Bertrand Goldberg, Chicago
SOLD
Dans l'Atelier
1966
Etching and aquatint
15 x 20 inches (image)
Publisher, Galerie Louis Leiris, Paris
Printer, Atelier Crommelynck, Paris
Catalogue raisonné, Bloch 1403
Edition of 50 + 17 proofs
Stamped estate signature, numbered in pencil
SOLD
Vase au Bouquet
1956
Glazed ceramic plate
9.75 x 9.75 inches
Catalogue raisonné, Ramie 304
Edition of 200
Stamped Empreinte Originale de Picasso, Madoura Plein Feu, numbered 145/200
SOLD