Lot 502 
502
Pablo Picasso
Femme au fauteuil no. 4, 1949.
Lithograph
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 47,200 Sold:
€ 50,800 / $ 59,944 (incl. surcharge)
Femme au fauteuil no. 4. 1949.
Lithograph.
Signed and barely legibly inscribed "Épreuve d'artiste" in the lower left. Artist proof aside from the edition of 50 numbered copies. On Arches wove paper (with the watermark). 69.8 x 54.7 cm (27.4 x 21.5 in). Sheet: 75,9 x 56,2 cm (29,8 x 22,1 in).
[AR].
• Marvelous deep black print from the important series “Femme au fauteuil” (1948/49).
• The work shows Picasso's muse Françoise Gilot.
• Testimony to the artist's great love of experimentation.
• Picasso's portraits of women are among the most 20th century's most famous works of art.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Switzerland.
LITERATURE: Fernand Mourlot, Picasso. Lithograph, Paris 1970, cataloque raisonné no. 137/5 (illu. on p. 115).
Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso. Katalog des graphischen Werkes 1904-1967, vol. I, 4th ed., Bern 1984, no. 588/5 (illu. on p. 143).
Lithograph.
Signed and barely legibly inscribed "Épreuve d'artiste" in the lower left. Artist proof aside from the edition of 50 numbered copies. On Arches wove paper (with the watermark). 69.8 x 54.7 cm (27.4 x 21.5 in). Sheet: 75,9 x 56,2 cm (29,8 x 22,1 in).
[AR].
• Marvelous deep black print from the important series “Femme au fauteuil” (1948/49).
• The work shows Picasso's muse Françoise Gilot.
• Testimony to the artist's great love of experimentation.
• Picasso's portraits of women are among the most 20th century's most famous works of art.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Switzerland.
LITERATURE: Fernand Mourlot, Picasso. Lithograph, Paris 1970, cataloque raisonné no. 137/5 (illu. on p. 115).
Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso. Katalog des graphischen Werkes 1904-1967, vol. I, 4th ed., Bern 1984, no. 588/5 (illu. on p. 143).
502
Pablo Picasso
Femme au fauteuil no. 4, 1949.
Lithograph
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 47,200 Sold:
€ 50,800 / $ 59,944 (incl. surcharge)
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