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Pablo Picasso

Lot 65

Troisième affiche Vallauris (sans la lettre), 1948

Lithograph

19.7 x 25.6 in (50.0 x 65.0 cm)

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Lot 65

Troisième affiche Vallauris (sans la lettre), 1948

Lithograph

19.7 x 25.6 in (50.0 x 65.0 cm)

Estimate:

€ 1,800 - 2,400

Auction: 24 days

Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co KG

City: Munich

Auction: Jul 15, 2025 03:32 PM

Auction number: 594

Auction name: Online Sale

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Lot Details

Lithograph. Signed and numbered. From an edition of 50 copies. On Arches wove paper (with the watermark). 50 x 65 cm. , size of sheet. [KA].
More works from the Max Niedermayer Collection, Limes-Verlag, Wiesbaden, are coming up in auctions throughout the year.
- A humorous example of Pablo Picasso's unmistakably reduced visual language. - The motif appears on a famous poster that Picasso designed for an exhibition in the town after moving to Vallauris in 1947. - Mythological creatures like this faun head are an important motif in Picasso's graphic oeuvre.
LITERATURE: Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso. Catalogue de l'œuvre gravé et lithographié 1904-1967, Bern 1984, vol. I, cat. no. 529 (illustrated) Fernand Mourlot, Picasso. Lithograph, Paris 1970, catalogue raisonné no. 120 bis (of 120 ter) (illustrated) - - Ulrike Gauss, Picasso. Die Lithographie, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, no. 381 (illustrated, different copy).

Dr. Max Niedermayer Collection (1905-1968), Wiesbaden. Dr. Max Niedermayer Estate, Wiesbaden. Private collection, Rhineland-Palatinate (acquired from the above in 1979). In family ownership since

All in all discolored, slightly irregularly browned in the lower left corner and slightly faded along the outer edges. Here and there with isolated, slight handling marks.

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Provenance

Dr. Max Niedermayer Collection (1905-1968), Wiesbaden. Dr. Max Niedermayer Estate, Wiesbaden. Private collection, Rhineland-Palatinate (acquired from the above in 1979). In family ownership since

Condition

All in all discolored, slightly irregularly browned in the lower left corner and slightly faded along the outer edges. Here and there with isolated, slight handling marks.