Femme au Corsage à Fleurs

Name: PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Brand: Femme au Corsage à Fleurs
Price: 75000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 94,500

Estimate

GBP 50,000 - GBP 70,000

Closed: 24 Mar 2022

Loading details

Try our

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Femme au Corsage à Fleurs

Price Realised GBP 94,500

Closed: 24 Mar 2022

Price Realised GBP 94,500

Closed: 24 Mar 2022

Details Lot Essay Related Articles More from

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Femme au Corsage à Fleurs
lithograph, 1958, on Arches wove paper, signed in pencil, a proof of Mourlot’s third, final state, aside from the edition of fifty
Sheet 660 x 504 mm.

Acquired from Georges Sagourin, master lithographer at Mourlot, Paris; then by descent to the present owner.

Mourlot 307; Bloch 847; Hatje Cantz 730

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.

Conditions of Sale
FAQs
This lot is offered by Christie Manson & Woods Ltd

Brought to you by

Murray MacaulayHead of Department

A Christie's specialist may contact you to discuss this lot or to notify you if the condition changes prior to the sale.

mmacaulay@christies.com +44 207 389 2252

Lot Essay

As often happened to Picasso, his audacity and tireless commitment to art in all its forms provided him new and unexpected turning points in his multifaceted career. Since 1946 he had been producing ceramics at Madoura, in Vallauris, a small town in Côte d'Azur, where he lived from 1948 to 1955. It was at the ceramic workshop that the first encounter between the artist and the young sales assistant Jacqueline Roque took place in the summer of 1952. Six months later she agreed to go out with the 72-year-old artist and shortly after became his new muse, preferred subject and, in 1961, his fourth and last wife.

Jacqueline was portrayed over four hundred times by Picasso in various media, including lithography; more than any other women in his career. This series of portraits begun in December 1957 was completed over a period of a year. It harks back to the earlier portraits of Françoise Gilot, but here the subject looks away rather than towards the viewer. In , one of his most impressive and experimental lithographic series, the distinctive, almost mannered traits of Jacqueline's Spanish beauty - her long neck, elongated posture, high cheek bones - were accentuated by Picasso and reworked through a sequence of proofs in different states. The floral motif of the blouse is complete only in the third, final state, where Picasso also added some fine strokes to highlight some features and contrasts of the face. Jacqueline's hair seems to integrate into the blouse.

The present impression is a proof of the third, final state, aside from the numbered edition of fifty, and was originally acquired directly from Georges Sagourin, one of the three master lithographers at Mourlot's workshop.