Lot #469: PABLO PICASSO - Picasso: 60 Years of Graphic Works - Original color lithograph

 

Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881 - 1973).
Title: "Picasso: 60 Years of Graphic Works [Los Angeles County Museum of Art]".
Medium: Original color lithograph .
Date: Composed 1966.
Dimensions: Overall size: 29 x 20 1/2 in. (737 x 521 mm). Image size: 26 1/2 x 20 1/4 in. (673 x 514 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $800
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $1,200/1,500
Lot Note(s): Signed in blue crayon, lower left; signed, dated, and titled in the stone. Edition of 2,500. White wove paper. Full margins. Very fine impression. Very good condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Bloch 1302; Czwiklitzer 53 (1970 ed.);Czwiklitzer 55 (1981 ed.) Rodrigo 159.
Comment(s): Poster created (and exhibition held) during Picasso's lifetime, with Picasso authorizing its printing. We could not find a signed impression of this twelve color lithograph at auction. An unsigned impression sold for EU800 ($1,285) at Van Ham Fine Art Auctions (Germany), Sale 246, Moderne und Zeitgenoessische Kunst, Part I, 12/01/2005, lot #486. This poster for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Oct. 25 - Dec. 24, 1966). Printed by Mourlot, Paris. Image copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [18004-5-800-NA]