Bust Against Starry Background

Artwork details

Artist

Pablo Picasso

Title

Bust Against Starry Background

Description

Original lithograph printed in indigo blue ink on wove paper bearing the Arches script watermark.

Dated  on the stone upper left “7.4.49”.

A superb, extremely rare proof impression, one of only two printed in blue, apart from the numbered edition of 50  Published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris; printed at Atelier Fernand Mourlot, Paris.

Date

1949

Medium

Lithograph

Edition

*

Signature

Unsigned

Catalogue Raisonne

Bloch 594; Mourlot 163; Güse/Rau 444; Reusse 477; Picasso Project 163.

Sheet

25 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches

Status

Sold