Auction A536 The Bayer Collection
Tuesday, Jun 3, 16:00 (your local time)
Hitzelerstr. 2, 50968 Köln, Germany
Auction: Tuesday, 3 June 2025
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LOT 127:

Pablo Picasso: Figure

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Price including buyer’s premium: 8,775
Start price:
6,500
Estimate :
€8,000 - €12,000
Buyer's Premium: 35%
VAT: 19% On commission only
Users from foreign countries may be exempted from tax payments, according to the relevant tax regulations
tags:

Pablo Picasso: Figure
PICASSO, PABLO
1881 Malaga - 1973 Mougins

Title: Figure.
Date: 1948.
Technique: Lithograph on vellum.
Depiction Size: 64 x 49,5cm.
Sheet Size: 65,5 x 50cm.
Notation: Signed. Verso equipped with stamp: Succ. Pablo PICASSO Coll. Marina PICASSO.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.

This work is one of the rare proofs, outside the signed and numbered edition of 50 copies.

Provenance:
- Marina Picasso Collection, Geneva
- Jan Krugier Fine Art, New York
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 1985)

Literature:
- Güse, Ernst-Gerhard/Rau, Bernd: Pablo Picasso - Die Lithographien, Stuttgart 1994 (2nd ed.), p. 239, cat. rais. no. 366, fig.
- Bloch, Georges: Pablo Picasso - Tome I, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié 1904-1967, Bern 1971 (2nd ed.), p. 140, cat. rais no. 579, fig.
- Mourlot, Fernand: Picasso, vol. 2, Monte Carlo 1949, cat. rais. no. 128, fig.
- Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 120, fig.

Estimated shipping costs for this lot:
Germany: 52,94 Euro plus 10,06 Euro VAT
EU: 79,83 Euro plus 15,17 Euro VAT
Worldwide: 138,66 Euro plus 26,34 Euro VAT
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This lot will be sold under standard taxation (Condition of Sale §V5.1)

Explanations to the Catalogue

Pablo Picasso
Spain
Cubism
Surrealism
Modern Art
Prints
1940s
Framed
Portrait
Print
Lithograph