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Large Female Nude, working proof (5th state)


Grand Nu de Femme, working proof (5th state)
Grand Nu dansant
Pablo Picasso (Spanish (worked in France), 1881–1973)
March 13, 1962

Medium/Technique Reduction linocut, trial proof printed in dark brown over reddish brown and beige
Dimensions Block: 64 x 52.9 cm (25 3/16 x 20 13/16 in.)
Sheet: 75.3 x 62 cm (29 5/8 x 24 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by Claire W. and Richard P. Morse
Accession Number2010.218
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Geiser-Baer 1309 V/VI; Bloch 1085
InscriptionsRecto, in graphite, below: Linogravure de Picasso - 367- Grand Nu de Femme 1962 - tirage du brun foncé sur brun et beige 5me ETAT - 13.3.62; b.r: 9
ProvenanceHidalgo Arnéra, the printer, Vallauris, France; his estate, Archives of Imprimerie Arnéra, France; February 9, 2009, to Dr. Frederick Mulder and Anne-Françoise Govanon, for Frederick Mulder Gallery, London; 2010, sold by Frederick Mulder Gallery to the MFA Boston. (Accession Date: April 14, 2010)
Copyright© 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.