Auction A536 The Bayer Collection
Jun 3, 2025
Hitzelerstr. 2, 50968 Köln, Germany
Auction: Tuesday, 3 June 2025
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LOT 120:

Pablo Picasso: Tête de jeune fille

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Sold for: €20,000
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Auction took place on Jun 3, 2025 at VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH Co. KG
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Pablo Picasso: Tête de jeune fille
PICASSO, PABLO
1881 Malaga - 1973 Mougins

Title: Tête de jeune fille.
Date: 1947.
Technique: Lithograph on vellum.
Depiction Size: 46 x 36,5cm.
Sheet Size: 56 x 40,5cm.
Notation: Dated and signed in the print: 5.3.47 Ier ETAT. Verso equipped with stamp: Succ. Pablo PICASSO Coll. Marina PICASSO (heavily faded).
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.

Verso there are two prints by unknown artists.

This work is one of the two unsigned proofs of the first version, before the signed and numbered edition of 50 copies.

Provenance:
- Marina Picasso Collection, Geneva
- Jan Krugier Fine Art, New York
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 1985)

Literature:
- Gauss, Ulrike: Pablo Picasso - Die Lithographie, Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster, The Huizinga Collection, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, cat. rais. no. 179, fig.
- Cf. Bloch, Georges: Pablo Picasso - Tome I, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié 1904-1967, Bern 1971 (2nd ed.), cat. rais. no. 423, fig.
- Farbenfabriken Bayer (ed.): Kunstwerk - Bildende Kunst bei Bayer, Leverkusen 1992, p. 100f., fig.

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Explanations to the Catalogue

Pablo Picasso
Spain
Cubism
Surrealism
Modern Art
Prints
1940s
Framed
Portrait
Print
Lithograph
Woman

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