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Lot 17*,AR
PABLO PICASSO(1881-1973)Flûtiste et dormeuse XVI, 1933
23 March 2021, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£50,000 - £70,000
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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Flûtiste et dormeuse XVI, 1933
monotype, on Arches laid paper
17.1 x 25.6cm (6 3/4 x 10 1/16in).
This is the second of only two impressions, printed by the artist
monotype, on Arches laid paper
17.1 x 25.6cm (6 3/4 x 10 1/16in).
This is the second of only two impressions, printed by the artist
Footnotes
Provenance
Ex coll. Marina Picasso and with her collector's stamp (L. 3698) on the reverse.
Literature
Geiser & Baer, Picasso Peintre-graveur, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé, Volume II, 1932-1934, Berne, 1992 (B.479).
While there are many notable years in Pablo Picasso's oeuvre, the
years that proceed his chance meeting with Marie-Thérèse Walter on
the streets of Paris in January 1927, would become some of his most
creatively inspired; stimulating both his life and his art and leading him
to depict some of his the most sensuous images.
Picasso would often paint Marie-Thérèse asleep; accentuating her
striking profile, emphasizing her Grecian features and just like in the
image above, showing her arms wrapped loosely around her head.
This monotype is one of only two impressions made by the artist in
1933 and shows a flute player sitting next to a serene sleeping model.
The scene is a depiction of tranquillity and contemplation, highlighting
the artist's repeated motif of the watched sleeping figure. As with many
of Picasso's works of art, the artist's desires are nowhere more evident
than in the depictions of his sleeping muses.
When a man watches a woman asleep,' Picasso confessed, 'he tries
to understand' (quoted in J. Richardson, A Life of Picasso, New York,
1991, vol. I, p. 317).
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