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Pablo Picasso

Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide [Eight Works]

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3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide [Eight Works]

eight etchings printed in black with black remarques on parchment papers

each sheet (approx.): 33 by 27 cm. 13 by 10⅝ in.

Executed in 1931; these impressions are proofs aside from the total edition of 145, printed by Louis Fort, Paris, published by Albert Skira, Lausanne.

Christie’s, London, The Edward James Collection West Dean Park, 5 June 1986, lots 1825 and 1826; and Christie's, New York, Modern Paintings and Drawings from the Edward James Collection, 6 October 1988, lots 67 and 68

Acquired from the above sales by the present owner

Georges Bloch, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié 1904-1967, Berne, 1998, vol. I, nos. 101, 110, 115, 116, 118, 120, 125, 127, pp. 48-53, other examples illustrated

 

Brigitte Baer, Picasso Peintre-Graveur, Berne, 1990, vol. I, nos. 145, 154, 159, 160, 162, 164, 169, 171, pp. 246-99, other examples illustrated

 

Patrick Cramer, Sebastian Goeppert, and H.C. Goeppert-Frank, Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonné, Geneva, 1983, no. 19, pp. 54-57, other examples illustrated