Live Auction 2475Prints & Multiples Including Pablo Picasso, Important Graphic Works
PABLO PICASSO
Lot 88

PABLO PICASSO

Femme Torero. Dernier Baiser? (B. 1329; Ba. 425)

Closed26 October 2011

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PABLO PICASSO
Femme Torero. Dernier Baiser? (B. 1329; Ba. 425)
etching, 1934, on laid Montval, from the unsigned edition of 50 (only a few impressions were signed), printed by Lacourière, Paris, 1939, with full margins, generally in very good condition, framed
P. 19½ x 27 3/8 in. (496 x 693 mm.)
S. 22 3/8 x 30¼ in. (568 x 777 mm.)

With Patrick Cramer, Geneva, 1985.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner.

Specialist note

Picasso pulled a few proofs of Femme Torero. Dernier Baiser? and La Grande Corrida (lot 89) between 1934 and 1939, but the print was never editioned. Roger Lacourière printed 50 impressions of each for Ambroise Vollard in 1939, but the publisher never paid for nor took delivery of the prints. Bear notes that this planned edition remained unnumbered, and only 3-4 prints of each were signed or inscribed.