Femme nue couronnée des fleurs

Pablo Picasso (Malaga 1881 - Mougins 1973)

1930. Etching/Montval laid paper. 31,5 x 22 cm. Framed under glass. Lower right autogrpahed Picasso. - This print from the Suite Vollard is from the smaller edition of 50 copies with the larger sheet size 50 x 38 cm. The larger edition of 260 copies was printed on sheets measuring 44.5 x 34 cm. In both editions Picasso signed only part of the prints. - The sheet from the 'Suite Vollard' appeared unnumbered in an edition of 260. Picasso worked 1930-37 on the suite, the printer Roger Lacourière needed from 1937-39 to print the series. Because of the 2nd World War, the sheets came on the market only in the 50s. - Literature: Catalogue raisoné: Bloch 134, Geiser/Baer 192. - Provenance: Collection Wolfgang Brudermüller; thence by descent; at last private collection Hamburg - Universal genius, one of the most important artists in the history of art, who made groundbreaking achievements in almost all artistic genres, in the most important collections of the whole world. P. studied from 1885 at the academies of Barcelona and Madrid. In the first years of the 20th century Picasso succeeded after difficult beginnings to establish himself in the art metropolis Paris. His immense creativity and stylistic diversity, in addition to the sheer abundance of creations made P. the unrivaled painter prince of an entire era. Mus.: New York (MoMA, Metrop. Mus.), Paris (Centre Pompidou) Mus. Picasso), Barcelona (Mus. Picasso), London (Tate Modern), Berlin (Neue Nat.-Gal., Mus. Berggruen), Chicago (Art Institute), St. Petersburg (Hermitage), Moskau (Pushkin Mus.), Madrid (Mus. Reina Sofia), Basel a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit, Zervos: P. P. Cat. rais., Bloch: Cat. de l’oeuvre gravé et lithographié a. others.