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Portrait de Femme II by PABLO PICASSO

Creator: Pablo Picasso
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
PICASSO, PABLO
Portrait de Femme II
Stock Code 107075
1955
£70,000
This abstract, three-quarter profile is of Picasso's second wife, Jacqueline Roque. The couple met during the summer of 1952 whilst Roque was working at Georges and Suzanne Ramié's Madoura pottery works in Vallauris, the studio where Picasso made his ceramics in the South of France. The couples love endured until the artist's death in 1973, Picasso adored Jacqueline so much so that for seventeen of the twenty years the couple spent together - the longest relationship of Picasso's life - Roque was the only female Picasso painted. When Picasso embarked on his late, great period, his biographer John Richardson succinctly defined and characterised as 'l'époque Jacqueline.' In this lithograph, Picasso bestows Roque with an elegant, sphinx-like appearance. The straight line of the nose which extends directly from the forehead to the tip is particularly evocative of these ancient Egyptian sculptures, as well as in the calm gaze in her characteristically eyes.

Description
Lithograph, 1955, on Arches wove paper, signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 50, printed by Mourlot, Paris, published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, 66.4 x 50 cm. (26⅛ by 19¾ in.)

Bibliography
Bloch 780; Mourlot 272

Stock ID:107075

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	1950-1979
Styles / Movements:	Surrealism
Dealer Reference #:	107075
Incollect Reference #:	610957

Dimensions

W.	19.69 in;	H.	26.14 in;
W.	50 cm;	H.	66.4 cm;

Message from Seller:

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