Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Lots XX and XX were executed by Picasso for Verve, the French art periodical which featured designs by well-known modern artists of the twentieth century. In 1954, Verve's publisher, Estafros Tériade, illustrated one hundred and eighty drawings by Picasso, including these lots, which were drawn in Vallauris that winter. Tériade remarked that this collection of drawings were Picasso's "finest, boldest, [and] most poignantly human of all he has produced in the course of his long and brilliant career."