Pablo Picasso Spanish, 1881-1973
Figure au corsage rayé, 1949
Original Lithograph on Arches paper, with drawing on paper transferred to stone
Dated in the block, upper left on recto
Annotated '179' in pencil and stamped Collection Mourlot, on verso
Edition of 50 + 6 AP
Dated in the block, upper left on recto
Annotated '179' in pencil and stamped Collection Mourlot, on verso
Edition of 50 + 6 AP
Image: 50 x 64.5 cm
Sheet: 55 x 76.2 cm
Sheet: 55 x 76.2 cm
© Pablo Picasso
This piece was part of a sought after series of colour Lithographs which depicted Francois Gillot, Picasso’s lover, and the mother of Claude and Paloma. It was based on the...
This piece was part of a sought after series of colour Lithographs which depicted Francois Gillot, Picasso’s lover, and the mother of Claude and Paloma. It was based on the painting “Bust of a woman” 3/21/1949). There is much to connect the style of this work with ancient Egyptian Art which was very popular at the time - the heavy headdress and facial portrait. . Picasso had a great interest in these types of works and his art is often heavily influenced by African and Oceanic works.
Provenance
Mourlot Collection, Paris“Picasso Lithographs from the Mourlot Collection” , Sotheby's New York, November 14, 1994, lot 129
Acquired from the above by a Private Collector, Vancouver
By descent to a Private Estate, Vancouver, Canada
Exhibitions
Comparable editions of the present work are held in the following public collections:Kunstmuseum Picasso, Munster (Inv 503.179)MOMA, New York, Object Number 566.1951 https://www.moma.org/collection/works/71218. The gift of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund.
Publications
Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso, Tome I, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié 1904 - 1967, page 146, Bloch 604Liberation and the Post War Years, no. 49-020Hatje Cantz “Picasso Lithographs”Catalogue Raisonné, no. 503 (illustrated on cover)
Alan Wofsy Fine Arts “Picasso’s Paintings, watercolours, drawings and sculpture, by Fernand Mourlot, Revised by the Picasso Project. The Lithographic Work, Volume 1” Number 179. Our work fit illustrated of the front cover of this volume