Name: PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Brand: Paris, 14 juillet 42 - L'homme au mouton ('Man with a Ram')
Price: 12000.00 GBP
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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Paris, 14 juillet 42 - L'homme au mouton ('Man with a Ram')
etching with open-bite, scraper and engraving
1942
on Rives wove paper
unsigned
an impression in the negative, with the plate surface printed in black
Baer's fifth, final state, printed by Lacourière, Paris
one of presumably only three examples printed in this manner
printed almost to the edges of the full sheet
with deckle edges on three sides
in very good condition
Plate 45 x 64,6 cm. (17³⁄₄ x 25¹⁄₂ in.)
Sheet 45,1 x 65.3 cm. (17³⁄₄ x 25⁵⁄₈ in.)

Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 21 June 1996, lot 104.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.

B. Baer & B. Geiser, Picasso: Peintre-Graveur, Bern, 1990, no. 682 V B b, pp. 255-258 (another impression ill.).

Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Picasso - Der Blinde Minotaurus - Die Sammlung Hegewisch in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, February 1997, no. 31 (ill.), pp. 114-5.
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. 31 (ill.), p. 114.

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Although Picasso, together with his printer Roger Lacourière (1892-1966), took this large, compositionally as well as technically complex plate through a sequence of five states and even experimented with negative printing as the present example shows, no edition was ever produced. It seems that Picasso at some considered the subject better suited for lithography and had Fernand Mourlot create a transfer onto a lithographic zinc plate, of which two, possibly three impressions were taken. Also in this technique, no edition was ever realised.
The print is hence extremely rare in any state or version: Baer only records a total of 16 impressions taken from the etching plate in different states.