Pablo Picasso - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, October 22, 2024 | Phillips

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 22 - 24 October 2024

  • Literature

    Georges Bloch 180
    Brigitte Baer 338

  • 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

Le Viol II (The Rape II), plate 30 from La Suite Vollard (Bl. 180, Ba. 338)

1933
Etching, on laid Montval paper with the Montgolfier watermark, with full margins.
I. 11 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. (29.2 x 36.2 cm)
S. 15 1/8 x 19 3/4 in. (38.4 x 50.2 cm)
Signed in pencil, from the edition of 50 with wide margins (there was also an edition of 260 with smaller margins), published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1939, framed.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $6,985

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 22 - 24 October 2024