Fernand Mourlot: Picasso Lithographe. Vol. II. Monte- Carlo, André Sauret, Èditions du Livre, 1950, p. 200, ill. p. 201 / 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. 38, ill. p. 39 / Auction 1322: Picasso Lithographs: Themes and Variations. New York, Christie’s, 28.4.2003, cat. no. 185
”La femme a la résille” (”Femme aux cheveux verts”). 1949
Lithograph on Arches wove paper. 65 × 49,8 cm
(25 ⅝ × 19 ⅝ in.). Insribed by Fernand Mourlot on the reverse in pencil: 178 - femme aux cheveux verts po[ur] Castor Exposition fm. Catalogue raisonné: Rau 462 (there erroneously registered as 3rd state of the black plate) / see Bloch 612 and Mourlot 178 / Goeppert/ Goeppert-Frank, 11th state of the overall concept. One of 6 prints. 4th and final state of the black plate. [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)
Fernand Mourlot: Picasso Lithographe. Vol. II. Monte- Carlo, André Sauret, Èditions du Livre, 1950, p. 200, ill. p. 201 / 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. 38, ill. p. 39 / Auction 1322: Picasso Lithographs: Themes and Variations. New York, Christie’s, 28.4.2003, cat. no. 185
