Pablo Picasso : Cover for Picasso Lithographe IV (two heads — front and back cover), 1963
Scarce lithograph before the letter!
By PICASSO Pablo (1881-1973)
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
Cover for Picasso Lithographe IV (two heads — front and back cover), 1963
Original lithograph in black on wove paper (vélin) — a pair of two sheets
Unsigned; dated in the stone “4.2.63” lower right on each sheet. As published, from the unsigned edition for the volume.
Dimensions — Sheet: 32 × 25.5 cm (12 5/8 × 10 in.) each;
Condition: Fine condition; unframed
References: Mourlot 388 · Bloch 1108 · Cramer 125 (cover for Picasso Lithographe IV)
Period: Drawn 4 February 1963; published 1964
The two sheets are the front- and back-cover heads of the wrap-around cover Picasso created for the fourth and final volume of Fernand Mourlot’s catalogue raisonné of his lithographs (covering the prints of 1956–1963), published by André Sauret, Éditions du Livre, Monte-Carlo, 1964. Drawn in a single sitting on 4 February 1963, both heads exemplify Picasso’s late graphic shorthand for the human face: a dense, almost frenzied web of lithographic crayon out of which a few reserved white passages — diamond eyes, a Y-shaped nose, a crescent smile — resolve into a grinning mask. Printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris.
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Price : 300,00 € ( 341.00 USD )
