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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Minotaure aveugle guidé par une fillette dans la nuit, from: La Suite Vollard
aquatint and drypoint
1934
on Montval laid paper, watermark Vollard
unsigned
from the edition of 260 (there was also an edition of fifty with wider margins)
published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1939
the full sheet
in very good condition
Plate 24,7 x 34,7 cm. (934 x 1358 in.)
Sheet 34 x 44,5 cm. (1338 x 1712 in.)
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Marina Picasso (b. 1950), Paris; by descent from the above.
With Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva; on consignment from Marina Picasso.
Sotheby's, New York, 16-17 February 1982, lot 333A.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
G. Bloch, Picasso - Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographe 1904-1967, Bern, 1968, vol 1, no. 225, pp. 72-73 (another impression ill.).
B. Baer & B. Geiser, Picasso - Peintre - Graveur, Bern, 1990, no. 437, pp. 314-317 (another impression ill.).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Picasso, Der blinde Minotaurus - Die Sammlung Hegewisch in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, February 1997, pp. 48-49 (ill.) & pp. 83-84.
Oslo, Munch-Museet, Pablo Picasso - Den blinde Minotaurus - grafikk og tegning, November 2002 - February 2003 (no cat.).
Hamburg, Ernst Barlach Haus - Stiftung Hermann F. Reemtsma, Pablo Picasso - Der Stier und das Mädchen - Meisterblätter aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, June - October 2010, no. 26 (iIl.), p. 114.
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