Pablo Picasso. Das Antlitz der Muse. Ein Bild and seine Vor-Bilder. Edited and commented by Sebastian Goeppert/Herma C. Goeppert-Frank. Frankfurt a.M. And Leipzig, 2001, p. 28, ill. p. 29 / Auction 1322: Picasso Lithographs: Themes and Variations. New York, Christie’s, 28.4.2003, cat. no. 185
”La femme à la résille” (”Femme aux cheveux verts”). 1949
Colour lithograph on Arches wove paper. 66 × 50,3 cm
(26 × 19 ¾ in.). On the reverse inscribed by Fernand Mourlot in pencil: la femme à la résille épreuve en cours fm178 bis. Catalogue raisonné: This state not described in Rau. See Bloch 612 and Mourlot 178 / Goeppert/Goeppert-Frank, 6th condition of the overall concept. One of the few trial proofs. 1st state of the colour concept II. [3250]
Provenance
Fernand Mourlot, Paris / Art dealership, Great Britain / Villa Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin (1988) / Private Collection, Japan (1988) / Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired 2003 at Christie’s, New York)
Pablo Picasso. Das Antlitz der Muse. Ein Bild and seine Vor-Bilder. Edited and commented by Sebastian Goeppert/Herma C. Goeppert-Frank. Frankfurt a.M. And Leipzig, 2001, p. 28, ill. p. 29 / Auction 1322: Picasso Lithographs: Themes and Variations. New York, Christie’s, 28.4.2003, cat. no. 185
