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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Farol
linocut in colours
1959
on thick wove paper, without watermark
signed and dedicated Pour Bernard [sic!] Geiser in black crayon
an impression of Baer's second, final state
a proof aside from numbered edition of fifty impressions
with wide margins
in good condition
Block 16,5 x 22,6 cm. (612 x 878 in.)
Sheet 37,2 x 47,8 cm. (1458 x 1834 in.)
Provenance
Dr Bernhard Geiser (1891–1967), Switzerland; a gift from the artist.
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 16 June 2005, lot 715.
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. 945, p. 205 (another impression ill.).
B. Baer & B. Geiser, Picasso - Peintre - Graveur, Bern, 1990, no. 1223 II B b, p. 253 (another impression ill.).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Pablo Picasso: La Tauromaquia oder Die Kunst des Stierkampfs, July - October 2005 (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. 43 (ill.), p. 117.
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