Bidspirit auction | Pablo Picasso: Tête de jeune

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. Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction. This lot will be sold under standard taxation (Condition of Sale §V5.1) Explanations to the Catalogue Pablo Picasso Spain Cubism Surrealism Modern Art Prints 1940s Framed Portrait Print Lithograph Woman