Lot 67
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Pablo Picasso
Portrait de jeune fille, d´après Cranach le jeune. II, 1958.
Linocut in colors
Estimate:
€ 180,000 - 240,000
$ 208,800 - 278,400
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Portrait de jeune fille, d'après Cranach le jeune. II. 1958.
Linocut in colors.
Signed and numbered. From an edition of 50 copies. On Arches wove paper (with the watermark). Image: 65 x 53.7 cm (25.5 x 21.1 in). Sheet: 77 x 57 cm (30,3 x 22,4 in).
Printed by Hidalgo Arnéra, Vallauris. Published by Galerie Leiris, Paris. [AR].
• Masterpiece of modern printmaking.
• Homage to Cranach: radical, colorful reinterpretation of a historic Renaissance painting.
• Another copy is in the collection of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart: a gift from Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, who once inspired Picasso with a postcard of the Cranach painting.
• The artist's most sought-after linocut on the international auction market (source: artnet.com).
PROVENANCE: Galerie Berggruen & Cie, Paris.
Private collection, Hesse.
LITERATURE: Bernhard Geiser, Brigitte Baer, Picasso peintre-graveur. Catalogue raisonné des œuvres gravées et monotypes, vol. IV, Berne 1986, CR no. 1053 C a (of C b) (with illustration).
Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso. Catalogue des œuvres gravées et lithographiées 1904-1967, Berne 1984, CR no.° 859 (with illustration).
Called up: December 5, 2025 - ca. 19.12 h +/- 20 min.
1881 - 1973
Portrait de jeune fille, d'après Cranach le jeune. II. 1958.
Linocut in colors.
Signed and numbered. From an edition of 50 copies. On Arches wove paper (with the watermark). Image: 65 x 53.7 cm (25.5 x 21.1 in). Sheet: 77 x 57 cm (30,3 x 22,4 in).
Printed by Hidalgo Arnéra, Vallauris. Published by Galerie Leiris, Paris. [AR].
• Masterpiece of modern printmaking.
• Homage to Cranach: radical, colorful reinterpretation of a historic Renaissance painting.
• Another copy is in the collection of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart: a gift from Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, who once inspired Picasso with a postcard of the Cranach painting.
• The artist's most sought-after linocut on the international auction market (source: artnet.com).
PROVENANCE: Galerie Berggruen & Cie, Paris.
Private collection, Hesse.
LITERATURE: Bernhard Geiser, Brigitte Baer, Picasso peintre-graveur. Catalogue raisonné des œuvres gravées et monotypes, vol. IV, Berne 1986, CR no. 1053 C a (of C b) (with illustration).
Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso. Catalogue des œuvres gravées et lithographiées 1904-1967, Berne 1984, CR no.° 859 (with illustration).
Called up: December 5, 2025 - ca. 19.12 h +/- 20 min.
In the mid-1950s, Pablo Picasso embarked on a new artistic form of expression: linocut. With his usual enthusiasm for experimentation, he devoted himself intensively to this relief printing technique, which was not yet widely used in the art world at that time, developing an exact working method in collaboration with the printer Hidalgo Arnéra in Vallauris. Unlike etching or lithography, linocut enabled him to use intense, vibrant colors and produce complex multicolor prints. Although the technique accounts for only a small percentage of his overall graphic oeuvre, his linocuts are among the most popular prints by the artist and are considered masterpieces of modern printmaking, including the present “Portrait de jeune fille, d´après Cranach le jeune II” from 1958.
The inspiration for this early linocut, printed in five colors and from five plates, was a painting by Lucas Cranach the Younger—"Weibliches Bildnis (Female Portrait, 1564), today on display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Inspired by a postcard depicting Cranach's portrait, which he had received from his publisher and gallerist Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, he used the linocut technique to develop a radical reinterpretation of the Renaissance painting. Through a substantial reduction of the motif, expressive areas of color, and the stylization of the subjects, a kind of paraphrase of the historical portrait emerges, in which the original motif remains recognizable but speaks an entirely new artistic language. It is Picasso's first color linocut. He continued to work with this printing technique until the late 1960s, helping restore its reputation through his technical innovations and incredible artistic inventiveness. [AR]
The inspiration for this early linocut, printed in five colors and from five plates, was a painting by Lucas Cranach the Younger—"Weibliches Bildnis (Female Portrait, 1564), today on display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Inspired by a postcard depicting Cranach's portrait, which he had received from his publisher and gallerist Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, he used the linocut technique to develop a radical reinterpretation of the Renaissance painting. Through a substantial reduction of the motif, expressive areas of color, and the stylization of the subjects, a kind of paraphrase of the historical portrait emerges, in which the original motif remains recognizable but speaks an entirely new artistic language. It is Picasso's first color linocut. He continued to work with this printing technique until the late 1960s, helping restore its reputation through his technical innovations and incredible artistic inventiveness. [AR]
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Pablo Picasso
Portrait de jeune fille, d´après Cranach le jeune. II, 1958.
Linocut in colors
Estimate:
€ 180,000 - 240,000
$ 208,800 - 278,400
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Pablo Picasso "Portrait de jeune fille, d´après Cranach le jeune. II"
This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
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