Pablo Picasso - Modern and Contemporary Editions New York Sunday, November 23, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Brigitte Baer 371; Georges Bloch 261

  • 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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Minotaure contemplant une Dormeuse

1933
Drypoint, on laid paper, with full margins,
I. 11 7/8 x 14 1/2 in. (30.2 x 36.8 cm)
S. 16 3/8 x 20 3/4 in. (41.6 x 52.7 cm)

a proof aside from the numbered edition of 35 printed in 1960-61 after the plate was steel-faced (there are only two known proofs pulled in 1933), the palest mat staining, a few soft handling creases in the margins, an area of skinning at the reverse of the upper left, otherwise in good condition, framed.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Modern and Contemporary Editions

23 Nov 2008, 2pm
New York