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London: Rhodes, 2018.

Artist and publisher’s blindstamp lower left.

Nick Smith is a contemporary British artist who deconstructs images into colour swatches, which he then reassembles and juxtaposes with lines of text, in this case from Pablo Picasso’s painting Femme au beret et à la robe a carreaux (Marie-Therese Walter). The original painting sold for £49,827,000 in February 2018. Smith has recreated the painting using 414 coloured squares each with £120,355.07 written beneath, adding up to the £49,827,000.

Edition of 88. Giclee with screenprint varnish on Fabriano 5 paper, all edges deckled.

Signed and dated in pencil lower right by the artist, numbered lower left.

Sheet size: 69 x 58 cm. Framed size: 77.7 x 66.7 cm. Presented float mounted in a white wooden frame with UV protective glass.