Pablo Picasso, Portrait d'un Torero, 1964

Original drypoint Etching, Paris, 2/4/1964, on Velin de Rives paper, with full margins

21 1/4 x 15 1/2 in
54 x 39.5 cm
71 x 52 cms (Paper size)
Framed

The Baer Catalogue states an edition of 50 plus 15 artists proofs. Orozco states that the work was never editioned. Our work shows no edition - but this was common amongst Picasso’s artists proofs which were often merely signed and not annotated as Artists Proofs. The print is scarce but we have found, online, other examples with numbering out of 50 so we take the view of Baer on this..

Signed by the artist in pencil

Copyright The Artist

Photo: Lucien Clergue

Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (This famous gallery, under Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, published Picasso’s etchings for many years) and were the publishers of this piece.

Caroline Wiseman, Wiseman Originals, London - We have their invoice, number 404, dated 18/12/1995

Collection of Mr Stuart Mayhead, Middlewich, Cheshire: Purchased from the above for the sum of £7400

Publications

Bloch, Georges. 1968-1979. Pablo Picasso, catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié, 4 vol. Berne: Kornfeld and Klipstein. (Bloch 1370)

Geiser, Bernhard and Brigitte Baer. 1986-1996. Picasso: Peintre-Graveur, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et des monotypes, 7 vols. Berne: Kornfeld. (1163.B.b.1)

Miguel Orozco: The Complete etchings of Pablo Picasso, Volume II Number 1734 (Page 646)

Note: Baer states that the cancelled etching plate still exists. This large and handsome etching rarely comes up for sale. It is a beautiful example of the artist's etching work. The renowned photographer , Lucien Clergue, a close friend of Picasso and his heirs corrected a previous description based on Baer, saying it was actually the portrait of a young Torero! This perhaps explains the exaggerated hairstyle which is, in fact, a cap.

Pablo Picasso Spanish, 1881-1973

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