Pablo Picasso - Evening & Day Editions New York Monday, October 26, 2015 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 26 October 2015

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    Georges Bloch 226
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  • Artist Biography

    Pablo Picasso

    Spanish • 1881 - 1973

    One of the most dominant and influential artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso was a master of endless reinvention. While significantly contributing to the movements of Surrealism, Neoclassicism and Expressionism, he is best known for pioneering the groundbreaking movement of Cubism alongside fellow artist Georges Braque in the 1910s. In his practice, he drew on African and Iberian visual culture as well as the developments in the fast-changing world around him.

    Throughout his long and prolific career, the Spanish-born artist consistently pushed the boundaries of art to new extremes. Picasso's oeuvre is famously characterized by a radical diversity of styles, ranging from his early forays in Cubism to his Classical Period and his later more gestural expressionist work, and a diverse array of media including printmaking, drawing, ceramics and sculpture as well as theater sets and costumes designs. 

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Pablo Picasso

Garçon et dormeuse à la chandelle (Boy and Sleeping Woman by Candle Light), plate 26 from La suite Vollard

1934
Etching and aquatint, on Montval paper with watermark Vollard, with full margins (deckle on three sides),
I. 9 1/4 x 11 5/8 in. (23.5 x 29.5 cm)
S. 13 1/2 x 17 5/8 in. (34.3 x 44.8 cm)
signed in pencil, from the edition of 260 (there was also an edition of 50 with wider margins), numbered '385' (faint) in the Petiet system lower left corner, published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1939, framed.

Estimate
$15,000 - 25,000 

Sold for $18,750

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 26 October 2015