PABLO PICASSO (1881 - 1973)
Lot 97

PABLO PICASSO (1881 - 1973)

Jacqueline

Closed24 April 2015

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USD 100,000

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PABLO PICASSO (1881 - 1973)
Jacqueline
linocut in colors, 1959, on Arches paper, signed in pencil, numbered 30/50 (there were also approximately 20 artist's proofs), published by Galerie Louise Leiris, 1960, with wide margins, reduced slightly at the upper sheet edge, otherwise generally in very good condition, framed
Image: 25 x 20 7/8 in. (635 x 530 mm.)
Sheet: 28 ½ x 24 3/8 in. (721 x 619 mm.)

Specialist note

"They lived in a world of his own creation where he reigned almost as a king yet cherished only two treasures--freedom to work and the love of Jacqueline"
(David Douglas Duncan, Picasso and Jacqueline, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1988, p. 9)