Pablo Picasso - Photographs New York Thursday, October 8, 2015 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Swann Auction Galleries, New York, 18 May 2006, lot 174

  • Catalogue Essay

    Throughout his long and celebrated career, Picasso continuously experimented with all art forms, from painting and ceramics to etchings and photography. Here, having engraved the negative before printing it, Picasso blurs the boundaries between photography and printmaking, calling into question the rigid divides between mediums.

  • 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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Untitled

circa 1953
Gelatin silver print.
5 x 3 1/8 in. (12.7 x 7.9 cm)
Signed in ink on the recto.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

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New York Auction 8 October 2015