Pablo Picasso - Editions and Works on Paper Including Works from the Piero Crommelynck Collection New York Tuesday, April 18, 2017 | Phillips

Editions and Works on Paper Including Works...

New York Auction 18 April 2017

  • Provenance

    Christie's, New York, Picasso Lithographs: Themes and Variations, April 28, 2003, lots 83 and 84

  • Literature

    Fernand Mourlot 92-99
    Georges Bloch 448-450 (five not listed)
    see Patrick Cramer books 60 and 88
    Felix Reuße 221-230

  • Artist Biography

    Pablo Picasso

    Spanish • 1881 - 1973

    One of the most dominant and influential artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso was a master of endless reinvention. While significantly contributing to the movements of Surrealism, Neoclassicism and Expressionism, he is best known for pioneering the groundbreaking movement of Cubism alongside fellow artist Georges Braque in the 1910s. In his practice, he drew on African and Iberian visual culture as well as the developments in the fast-changing world around him.

    Throughout his long and prolific career, the Spanish-born artist consistently pushed the boundaries of art to new extremes. Picasso's oeuvre is famously characterized by a radical diversity of styles, ranging from his early forays in Cubism to his Classical Period and his later more gestural expressionist work, and a diverse array of media including printmaking, drawing, ceramics and sculpture as well as theater sets and costumes designs. 

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Pablo Picasso

Le petit pot de fleurs (Small Pot of Flowers); and Fleurs dans un verre (Flowers in a Glass) Nos. 1-7

1947
Nine lithographs, on Arches and Rives BFK paper, with full margins.
all I. various sizes
all S. 12 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. (32.7 x 25.1 cm)
All annotated with their respective Mourlot numbers in pencil in the lower right corner (Mourlot calls for only four proofs of each except Flowers in a Glass No. 6 (M. 98) with ten proofs, Small Pot of Flowers (M. 92) and Flowers in a Glass No. 5 (M. 97) there were editions of 50 on Japanese paper for the book Dans l'atelier de Picasso, (M. 98) the edition was 2500 as a frontispiece for volume II of Picasso Lithographs, the others were never editioned), printed by Mourlot, Paris, including two impressions of Flowers in a Glass No. 6 (M. 98), all framed.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $13,750

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Editions and Works on Paper Including Works from the Piero Crommelynck Collection

New York Auction 18 April 2017