Lucia Tro Santafe
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Lot 29*,AR
Pablo Picasso(1881-1973)Femmes à leur toilette, 1956
23 March 2021, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£8,000 - £12,000
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Femmes à leur toilette, 1956
dated '4.1.64' in ink,
linocut rincée in cream white and washed in black India ink
73 x 62cm (28 3/4 x 24 7/16in).
This work is one of four experimental proofs (as cited in Baer), printed by Arnéra, Vallauris. This subject was never published in an edition.
dated '4.1.64' in ink,
linocut rincée in cream white and washed in black India ink
73 x 62cm (28 3/4 x 24 7/16in).
This work is one of four experimental proofs (as cited in Baer), printed by Arnéra, Vallauris. This subject was never published in an edition.
Footnotes
Provenance
Ex-Collection Marina Picasso, with her inkstamp verso (Lugt 3698).
Sotheby's, Prints from the Collection of Marina Picasso Online, 27 March 2019, London, lot 28.
Literature
Geiser & Baer, Picasso Peintre-graveur, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé, Berne, 1990, Volume IV (B.A.b 1037).
Continuing to push the experimental nature of the medium and one of his last experiments with linocutting, Femme à leur toilette, 1964 is an example of Picasso's 'rincée linoleums' technique. Just after printing and while still wet and sticky with white ink, the paper would be worked over by Picasso with black India ink. He would then take the paper over to his bathtub to 'rinse' the sheet with a shower hose carefully washing off some of the black ink – leaving a mottling effect and a final image which swings on the boundary of printing and watercolour. Each impression is therefore unique.
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