Art (1945-contemporary) > Figurative Painting (40s-60s ) Pablo Picasso - Biography
Toros en Vallauris. 1954.
Linocut.
Signed. Signed, dated and titled in substrate. Handwritten note in the left margin. From an edition of 100 signed copies. On wove paper. 74 x 79.8 cm (29.1 x 31.4 in). Sheet: 75,5 x 95,5 cm (29,7 x 37,5 in).
Printed by Hidalgo Arnera and published by the Association des potiers de Vallauris. [EH].
PROVENANCE: Ferrero Gallery, Nice.
Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1992)
Private collection, Southern Germany (inherited from the above in 2003).
LITERATURE: Bernhard Geiser, Brigitte Baer, Picasso peintre-graveur. Catalog raisonné de l'œuvre gravé et des monotypes, vol. IV: 1946-1958, Bern 1988, no. 1027 B (of B) (illustrated).
Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso. Catalog de l'œuvre gravé et lithographié 1904-1967, Bern 1984, no. 1264 (illu.).
In good condition. Overall minimally creased. Margins with isolatd soiled spots and tiny brown spots from the making. Some remnants of old mounting on the reverse of the outer margins, bleeding through to recto.
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