Pablo Picasso. Das Antlitz der muse. Ein Bild and seine Vor-Bilder. Ed. and kommentiert von Sebastian Goeppert/Herma C. Goeppert-Frank. Frankfurt a.M. And Leipzig, 2001, p. 34, ill. p. 35 / 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. 65 × 50 cm
(25 ⅝ × 19 ⅝ in.). Inscribed by Fernand Mourlot lower right in pencil: les 8 feuille 178 ter etat en [...]. Inscribed by Fernand Mourlot on the reverse at the bottom in pencil: FM 160 6/6 178 bis 2 etat. Catalogue raisonné: This state not described by Rau. See Bloch 612 and Mourlot 178 / Goeppert/Goeppert-Frank, 9th state of the overall concept. One of 6 prints. Combination of the black concept 3 with the colour concept 1. [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. Ed. and kommentiert von Sebastian Goeppert/Herma C. Goeppert-Frank. Frankfurt a.M. And Leipzig, 2001, p. 34, ill. p. 35 / auction 1322: Picasso Lithographs: Themes and Variations. New York, Christie’s, 28.4.2003, cat. no. 185