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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Femme Toréro I
etching
1934
on Montval laid paper
from the unpublished print-run of fifty (only a few impressions were signed)
printed by Lacourière, Paris, 1939
the full sheet
generally in very good condition
Plate 49,7 x 69,5 cm. (1912 x 2738 in.)
Sheet 56,7 x 78,6 cm. (2238 x 3012 in.)
Provenance
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 17 June 2005, lot 130.
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 I, no. 1329, p. 286 (another impression ill.).
B. Baer & B. Geiser, Picasso - Peintre - Graveur, Bern, 1990, no. 425 C (v. D), pp. 292-293 (another impression ill.).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Ernst Barlach Haus - Stiftung Hermann F. Reemtsma, Pablo Picasso - Der Stier und das Mädchen - Meisterblätter aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, June - October 2010, no. 19 (ill.), p. 113.
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This large etching was created by Picasso in 1934, while he was working on the Suite Vollard. Aside from a handful of proof impressions, a print-run of fifty on Montval paper was produced by the printer Roger Lacourière in 1939. For reasons unknown, Vollard never issued the edition, and the majority of impressions remained unsigned. Baer recorded only three signed examples.

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