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119001923
Pablo Picasso
Le Grand Hibou, 1948.
Lithograph
Estimate:
€ 7,000 / $ 7,910
Sold:
€ 8,804 / $ 9,948

(incl. surcharge)
Le Grand Hibou. 1948.
Lithograph.
Bloch 517. From an edition of 50 copies. On wove paper by Arches (with the watermark). 68 x 53 cm (26.7 x 20.8 in). Sheet: 73,5 x 56 cm (28,9 x 22 in).
Printed by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, and published by Louise Leiris, Paris. [EH].

PROVENANCE: Private collection Baden-Württemberg (since 2002).

EXHIBITION: Galerie Francaise, Munich.

Animals are an integral part of Picasso's pictorial world, they epitomize virtue and vice, human weaknesses as well as the pure joy of being. The owl has ben a symbol of wisdom and protectionb since antiquity. Picasso emphasizes these attributes with the large eyes and the way the wings form a shield.

In good condition. Sheet all in all minimally discolored and with mount staining. Lower margin slightly irregularly trimmed. [EH]



119001923
Pablo Picasso
Le Grand Hibou, 1948.
Lithograph
Estimate:
€ 7,000 / $ 7,910
Sold:
€ 8,804 / $ 9,948

(incl. surcharge)

 


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