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. 20, ill. p. 21 / Auction 1322: Picasso Lithographs: Themes and Variations. New York, Christie’s, 28.4.2003, cat. no. 185, ill. p. 87
”La femme à la résille” (”Femme aux cheveux verts”). 1949
Colour lithograph on Arches wove paper. 65 × 50 cm
(25 ⅝ × 19 ⅝ in.). Inscribed On the reverse by Fernand Mourlot in pencil: FM 164 6/6 M 178 etat sans noir. Catalogue raisonné: Rau 457 / see Bloch 612 and Mourlot 178 / Goeppert/Goeppert-Frank, 2nd state of the overall concept. One of 6 trial proofs. 1st state of the colour concept I. [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. 20, ill. p. 21 / Auction 1322: Picasso Lithographs: Themes and Variations. New York, Christie’s, 28.4.2003, cat. no. 185, ill. p. 87
