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. 22, ill. p. 43 / 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 × 50,5 cm
(26 × 19 ⅞ in.). Inscribed by Fernand Mourlot on the reverse at the bottom in pencil: 178 ter FM 166 6/6 M 178 ter etat definitif. Catalogue raisonné: Rau 463 / Bloch 612 / Mourlot 178 / Goeppert/Goeppert-Frank, 12th and final state of the overall concept. One of 6 prints outside the edition of 50 numbered copies. [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. 22, ill. p. 43 / Auction 1322: Picasso Lithographs: Themes and Variations. New York, Christie’s, 28.4.2003, cat. no. 185
