PABLO RUIZ PICASSO (DESPUES)

(1881 / 1973)

PABLO RUIZ PICASSO (AFTER) Malaga (1881) / Paris, France (1973) “La danse des faunes”, 1957

Lithograph on zinc plate. Dated in the plate in the upper right corner. Printed by Mourlot. One of 1000 unnumbered copies signed in the plate in the lower right corner. There is another edition of 200 copies signed in pencil. Produced to raise funds for the newspaper “Le Patriote”. Its publication on the front page of the newspaper was rejected by the editor at the time. Reproduced in: Georges Bloch Volume I, p. 821, no. 830. In Mourlot, Picasso Lithographe no. 291 and in Picasso & la Presse, un peintre dans l'histoire Ed. L'humanite & Cercle d'art. 2000, p.170, no. 256. Dimensions: 48.5 x 64.5 cm.