Tête de femme No 4. Portrait de Dora Maar. 1939.
Etching and aquatint.
Baer 652 D (of E). Numbered. One of 80 numbered copies. On wove paper by Montval with the watermark Vollard. 29.6 x 23.5 cm (11.6 x 9.2 in). Sheet: 45 x 34 cm ( 17,7 x 13,3 in).
Baer mentions in the catalog raisonné that the prints were presumably executed in mid 1939 or in 1942.
Copies of this work have only been offered four times on the international art market over the past twenty years (source: www.artprice.com).
PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.
"You know, a love affair with an artist like my grandfather is something entirely different than any ordinary love affair. An artist needs you as a source of inspiration."
Olivier Picasso about his grandfather, from: https://www.welt.de/kultur/article9535540/Eine-Affaere-mit-Picasso-war-etwas-anderes.htl
Called up: December 8, 2018 - ca. 16.18 h +/- 20 min.