Lot 124 | Pablo Picasso | Tête de jeune fille

PICASSO, PABLO
1881 Malaga - 1973 Mougins

Title: Tête de jeune fille.
Date: 1947.
Technique: Lithograph on BFK RIVES (watermark).
Depiction Size: 48 x 39cm.
Sheet Size: 51,5 x 41,5cm.
Notation: Verso with stamp: Succ. Pablo PICASSO Coll. Marina PICASSO (severely faded).
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.

This work is one of two unsigned trial proofs of the fifth version, before the signed and numbered edition of 50 copies.

Provenance:
- Sammlung Marina Picasso, Geneva
- Jan Krugier Fine Art, New York
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 1985)

Exhibitions:
- Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013

Literature:
- Gauss, Ulrike: Pablo Picasso - Die Lithographie, Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster, Die Sammlung Huizinga, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, cat. rais. no. 183
- Güse, Ernst-Gerhard/Rau, Bernd: Pablo Picasso - Die Lithographien, Stuttgart 1994 (2nd edition), cat. rais. no. 167, fig.
- Cf. Bloch, Georges: Pablo Picasso - Tome I, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié 1904-1967, Bern 1971 (2nd edition), cat. rais. no. 423
- Mourlot, Fernand: Picasso, vol. 1, Monte Carlo 1949, cat. rais. no. 68, fig. (here third version)
- Farbenfabriken Bayer (ed.): Kunstwerk - Bildende Kunst bei Bayer, Leverkusen 1992, p. 100f., fig.
- Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 117, fig.