Lot Essay
A particularly fine impression, the burr on the drypoint printing strongly and with an atmospheric veil of plate tone.
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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Nature morte à la Bouteille de Marc
Details
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Nature morte à la Bouteille de Marc
signed 'Picasso' and numbered 'No. 66' in pencil
drypoint on Arches laid paper
Image: 19 5/8 x 12 in. (49.9 x 30.5 cm.)
Sheet: 28¼ x 21¼ in. (71.8 x 54 cm.)
Executed in 1911. This work from the edition of one hundred impressions. Published by Daniel Henry Kahnweiler, Paris, in 1912.
Nature morte à la Bouteille de Marc
signed 'Picasso' and numbered 'No. 66' in pencil
drypoint on Arches laid paper
Image: 19 5/8 x 12 in. (49.9 x 30.5 cm.)
Sheet: 28¼ x 21¼ in. (71.8 x 54 cm.)
Executed in 1911. This work from the edition of one hundred impressions. Published by Daniel Henry Kahnweiler, Paris, in 1912.
Literature
G. Bloch, Pablo Picasso: Catalogue of the printed graphic work 1904-1967, Bern, 1968, vol. 1, p. 26, no. 24 (another example from the edition illustrated in black and white).
B. Baer and B. Geiser, Picasso, Peintre-Graveur: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié et des monotypes 1899-1931, Berne, 1990, vol. I, p. 74, no. 33 (another example from the edition illustrated in black and white).
B. Baer and B. Geiser, Picasso, Peintre-Graveur: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié et des monotypes 1899-1931, Berne, 1990, vol. I, p. 74, no. 33 (another example from the edition illustrated in black and white).
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art; Santa Barbara, University Art Museum, University of California and The Toledo Museum of Art, The Cubist Print, October 1981-June 1982, p. 99, no. 13 (illustrated).
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum and Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment 1910-1912, May 2011-January 2012, p. 131, no. 36 (illustrated).
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum and Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment 1910-1912, May 2011-January 2012, p. 131, no. 36 (illustrated).
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