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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Crâne de chèvre ('Goat's Skull')
aquatint
1952
on wove paper
signed and numbered 42/50 in pencil
published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, 1952
with wide margins, probably the full sheet, with deckle edges on three sides
the sheet toned and stained

Plate 47,6 x 64,3 cm. (1834 x 2514 in.)
Sheet 57,4 x 73,4 cm. (2258 x 29 in.)
Provenance
Hans Hartung (1904-1989); then by bequest to the Fondation Hartung; Christie's, London, 30 November 1999, lot 283.
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. 691, p. 158 (another impression ill.).
B. Baer & B. Geiser, Picasso - Peintre - Graveur, Bern, 1990, no. 890, p. 159 (another impression ill.)
Exhibited
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. 39, p. 116 (ill.).
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