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La Femme qui pleure I by Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

La Femme qui pleure I, 1937

Drypoint, aquatint, etching and scraper on Montval laid paper
69.2 x 49.5 cm (27.25 x 19.5 in)
Prints & Multiples
Edition of 15
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Momentum 12M
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (16 May 2023)
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Past Sales
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ImageLast Sale DateTitleEdition No.Last SaleLast Sale Auction HouseLast Sale Location
May 16, 2023La Femme qui pleure I15
Sotheby'sNew York
Artwork Description
Category

Prints & Multiples

Dimensions

69.2 x 49.5 cm (27.25 x 19.5 in)

Materials

drypoint, aquatint, etching and scraper on Montval laid paper

Signature

signed in pencil (lower right) and numbered 15/15 (lower left)

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Marina Picasso (acquired by descent from the above)

Jan Krugier Gallery, New York

Private Collection, Seattle (acquired from the above)

David Tunkl Fine Art (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above in 2002 by the present owner

Literature

Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso, catalogue de l'œuvre gravé et lithographié , 1904-1967 , vol. I, Bern, 1968, no. 1333, p. 288, another impression illustrated

Brigitte Baer, Picasso peintre-graveur , vol. III, Bern, 1986, no. 623, p. 120, another impression illustrated

Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art (and traveling), Picasso and the Weeping Women: The Years of Marie-Thérèse Walter & Dora Maar , 1994, fig. 59, pp. 91-94, another impression illustrated

Brigitte Baer, Picasso peintre-graveur, addendum au catalogue raisonné , Bern, 1996, no. 623, p. 39, another impression illustrated

Brigitte Baer, Picasso The Engraver , New York, 1997, no. 71, p. 88, another impression illustrated

Description

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

La Femme qui pleure I

signed in pencil (lower right) and numbered 15/15 (lower left)

drypoint, aquatint, etching and scraper on Montval laid paper

plate: 27 ¼ by 19 ½ in. 69.2 by 49.5 cm.

sheet: 30 ½ by 22 ⅛ in. 77.5 by 56.2 cm.

Executed in 1937, this very fine impression of the extremely rare subject is number 15 from the edition of 15 of Baer's third state (of seven), printed by Lacourière.