PICASSO, PABLO
1881 Malaga - 1973 Mougins
Title: Fumeur.
Date: 1965.
Technique: Colour etching on vellum.
Depiction Size: 60 x 43cm.
Sheet Size: 78 x 58cm.
Notation: Signed and numbered.
Publisher: Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (publisher).
Number: 17/50.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.
Provenance:
- Galerie Rudolf, Heidelberg (according to consignor)
- Private Collection, South Germany
Literature:
- Bloch, Georges: Pablo Picasso - Tome I, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié 1904-1967, Bern 1971 (2nd editionufl.), cat. rais. no. 1168, ill.
- Baer, Brigitte/Geiser, Bernhard: Picasso - Peintre-Graveur, Tome V, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et des monotypes, 1959-1965, Bern 1989, cat. rais. no. 1168/B/b, ill.
- From his time in the south of France, during which he created an extensive graphic and ceramic oeuvre
- His oeuvre of over 2000 prints demonstrates his mastery of printing techniques, which he mastered with remarkable perfection
- Excellent colour etching with the aesthetics and appearance of a hand drawing.
Pablo Picasso 
