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Auction archive: Lot number 17

Pablo Picasso

Editions
29 Apr 2013
Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$16,250
Auction archive: Lot number 17

Pablo Picasso

Editions
29 Apr 2013
Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$16,250
Beschreibung:

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION Pablo Picasso Sable mouvant portfolio 1966 The complete set of 10 aquatints in text by Pierre Reverdy, on Rives paper watermark LB, with full margins, 20 1/8 x 16 5/8 in (51.1 x 42.2 cm) signed in pencil and numbered 179 (from the edition of 255), printed by Piero Crommelynck published by Louis Broder, Paris, all in very good condition, with original parchment wrapper and contained in original linen-covered slipcase (staining, minor wear at corners).
Provenance Sotheby’s, 19th and 20th Century Prints, New York, November 5 and 6, 1992, lot 368 Literature Georges Bloch 1183-1192 Brigitte Baer 1152-1161/B/b Patrick Cramer books 136 Catalogue Essay Including: Sculpteur au travail; Peintre et modèle aux cheveux longs; Deux femmes au miroir; Peintre debout à son chevalet, avec un modèle; Sculpteur et sculpture; Peintre et modèle accoudé; Tête d'homme barbu. II; Nu accoudé; Sculpteur devant sa sellette, avec un specateur barbu; and Sculpteur. Picasso's illustrations for Sable mouvant (Quicksand), Pierre Reverdy's last poem, depict the artist working with his model, selected from the series entitled: Peintre et modèle which Picasso worked on from 1963 to 1965. Eight out of the ten these painterly aquatints depict the artist, painter or sculptor, before a female model in his studio. The work was issued as a tribute to Reverdy who died in 1960 and who had played a significant role within the group of Surrealist artists and writers including Guillaume Apollinaire Max Jacob Georges Braque Juan Gris André Breton and Picasso. Read More Artist Bio Pablo Picasso Spanish • 1881 - 1973 Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso is known for his pioneering involvement in the development of Modernism and co-founding of the Cubist movement. He tirelessly investigated forms of expression with his pictorial vocabulary ranging from vivid naturalism to distorted abstraction, and his prolific output included painting, prints, drawings, ceramics and theatre sets. Endlessly curious, Picasso continually sought innovative creative avenues, experimenting with age-old printmaking processes (etching, lithography, linocut), each of which offered a distinct expressive opportunity of line, tone and mark-making. These graphic techniques, combined with Picasso's idiosyncratic motifs — mythological creatures, Spanish bullfighting scenes and portraits of lovers — resulted in an unparalleled body of printed works that could range from the spontaneously lyrical to the allegorically complex. View More Works

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
29 Apr 2013
Auction house:
Phillips
New York
Beschreibung:

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION Pablo Picasso Sable mouvant portfolio 1966 The complete set of 10 aquatints in text by Pierre Reverdy, on Rives paper watermark LB, with full margins, 20 1/8 x 16 5/8 in (51.1 x 42.2 cm) signed in pencil and numbered 179 (from the edition of 255), printed by Piero Crommelynck published by Louis Broder, Paris, all in very good condition, with original parchment wrapper and contained in original linen-covered slipcase (staining, minor wear at corners).
Provenance Sotheby’s, 19th and 20th Century Prints, New York, November 5 and 6, 1992, lot 368 Literature Georges Bloch 1183-1192 Brigitte Baer 1152-1161/B/b Patrick Cramer books 136 Catalogue Essay Including: Sculpteur au travail; Peintre et modèle aux cheveux longs; Deux femmes au miroir; Peintre debout à son chevalet, avec un modèle; Sculpteur et sculpture; Peintre et modèle accoudé; Tête d'homme barbu. II; Nu accoudé; Sculpteur devant sa sellette, avec un specateur barbu; and Sculpteur. Picasso's illustrations for Sable mouvant (Quicksand), Pierre Reverdy's last poem, depict the artist working with his model, selected from the series entitled: Peintre et modèle which Picasso worked on from 1963 to 1965. Eight out of the ten these painterly aquatints depict the artist, painter or sculptor, before a female model in his studio. The work was issued as a tribute to Reverdy who died in 1960 and who had played a significant role within the group of Surrealist artists and writers including Guillaume Apollinaire Max Jacob Georges Braque Juan Gris André Breton and Picasso. Read More Artist Bio Pablo Picasso Spanish • 1881 - 1973 Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso is known for his pioneering involvement in the development of Modernism and co-founding of the Cubist movement. He tirelessly investigated forms of expression with his pictorial vocabulary ranging from vivid naturalism to distorted abstraction, and his prolific output included painting, prints, drawings, ceramics and theatre sets. Endlessly curious, Picasso continually sought innovative creative avenues, experimenting with age-old printmaking processes (etching, lithography, linocut), each of which offered a distinct expressive opportunity of line, tone and mark-making. These graphic techniques, combined with Picasso's idiosyncratic motifs — mythological creatures, Spanish bullfighting scenes and portraits of lovers — resulted in an unparalleled body of printed works that could range from the spontaneously lyrical to the allegorically complex. View More Works

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
29 Apr 2013
Auction house:
Phillips
New York
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