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PABLO PICASSO(Málaga 1881 - 1973 Mougins)
Inès et son enfant. 1947.
Lithograph. 19/50. Signed lower right:
Picasso, as well as dated in the stone top
right: 29.1.47. Image 63 x 39 cm on vélin by
Arches (with the watermark) 65.4 x 50 cm.
Catalogue raisonné: Bloch, no. 414.
Literature: Gauss, Ulrike (Hrsg.): Pablo
Picasso. Die Lithographie. Graphikmuse-
um Pablo Picasso. Die Sammlung Huizinga,
Münster 2000, no. 169.
The wide variety of possibilities deriving
from the various printing processes enab-
les Picasso to live to the full his propensity
to experiment, thereby causing lithogra-
phy to gain a particular status. Although
engravings dominate his voluminous
graphic oeuvre, lithography offers him a
most crucial advantage: “the possibility to
capture phases of work on which he can
continue to work later on”. With regard to
the paintings “Guernica” (1937) and “The
Morgue” (1945), he took photographs of
the various stages of their creation. Litho-
graphy permitted him to preserve each
individual state of the work intact in spite
of its further artistic transformation (as a
duplicate).” (cit. Erich Franz, in: Exhibition
Catalogue Münster, 2000, p. 10).
The following two lithographs „Inès et
son enfant“ (“Inès and her child”), made
in 1947, convey this unique quality of the
lithograph and show in a striking way “how
Picasso uses every possibility in order to
do justice to his artistic perception and
way of working, in order to let the work de-
velop, to review its creation, to transform
it and, sometimes, very seldom, to destroy
it.” (cit.: Hachmeister, Heiner (ed.): Pablo
Picasso. Paraphrasen und Variationen.
Seltene Graphik, Münster 2004, p. 5.).
Based on the first state, Picasso creates
entirely new works, whose kinship with the
first state is evident, but which
nonetheless exist as individual pieces.
CHF 10 000 / 15 000
(€ 9 260 / 13 890)
3613*
PICASSO, PABLO(Málaga 1881 - 1973 Mougins)
Inès et son enfant. 1947.
Lithograph. 18/50. Signed lower right:
Picasso, as well as dated in the stone top
left: 29.1.47. Sheet size 65.8 x 50 cm on
vélin by Arches (with the watermark).
Catalogue raisonné: Bloch, no. 415.
Literature: Gauss, Ulrike (Hrsg.): Pablo
Picasso. Die Lithographie. Graphikmuse-
um Pablo Picasso. Die Sammlung Huizinga,
Münster 2000, no. 170.
CHF 12 000 / 18 000
(€ 11 110 / 16 670)
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