Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Tête d'Histrion (Le Danseur)

Pablo Picasso - "Tête d'Histrion" (The Dancer)

Technique: Original color Linoleum, on Arches wove paper;

Year: 1965;

Dimensions within frame: 83x70 cm;

Sheet dimensions: 74x61 cm;

Dimensions of the linoleum plate: 64x53 cm;

Print run: 200 copies signed in pencil by the artist, plus some Artist Proofs (about 35);

Specimen 22/200;

Pencil print run, bottom left;

Signed in pencil, bottom right;

Dated 23.5.65 in plate, top right;

ARCHES watermark along the left margin;

Publisher: Musée des Augustins, Toulouse;

Printer: Hidalgo Arnéra, Vallauris for the Association des Potiers de Vallauris;

Some other examples have recently gone on auction at major global auction houses (including Christie's, Sotheby's and Bonhams).
At the famous international auction house Christie's, on 22/11/24, the 47/200 specimen of the same series was awarded for 22,680 USD.

Publications:
• General catalogue "Picasso: Catalogue de l'œuvre gravé et lithographié" - Volume II (1966-1969), published by Kornfeld et Klipstein in 1971 edited by Georges Bloch, no. rep. 1849;

• Catalogue raisonné "Picasso Peintre-Graveur" - Tome VI. "Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié et des monotypes" 1966-1968, published by Edizioni Kornfeld of Bern edited by Brigitte Baer no. rep. 1360 (see addendum Tomo V);

Exhibitions:
• One of the 200 specimens is part of the collection of MOMA in NY, where it is exhibited. The work is officially registered in the museum's graphic editions catalogue under the inventory number Cat. MoMA n. 107; it is also published on the museum's website:
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/63679

• Musée des Augustins (Toulouse, France) - The museum historically preserves archival specimens and original documentation related to the circulation.
The work was conceived and published precisely as a celebratory piece for the major institutional exhibition "Picasso et le Théâtre", based at the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, during the period: June – September 1965. For the occasion, in addition to the 200 signed art print run, the image of the Tête d'Histrion was used by the Imprimerie Arnéra to print the famous official poster of the exhibition (known as Picasso au Théâtre Toulouse, catalogued Czwiklitzer n. 262);

• The Georges Bloch Donation Museums (Switzerland) - Georges Bloch, the famous compiler of Picasso's catalogue raisonné and his close friend, owned an extraordinary collection of graphics. Before his death, Bloch donated his entire collection to the Swiss National Foundation (Gottfried Keller-Stiftung), with the obligation to distribute it among eight major Swiss museums. The examples of the series (Bloch 1849) rotate periodically in the rooms and cabinets of drawings and prints of institutions such as: the Graphische Sammlung ETH in Zurich and the Kunstmuseum in Bern;

• Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso (Münster, Germany) - It is the only museum entirely dedicated to Picasso's graphic production. The Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster has an almost complete collection of all the linographs created by the artist in Vallauris (thanks to the historic acquisitions of the Huizinga collection), including the sheets printed in May 1965;

• Galerie Maeght (Paris) - One of the examples from the regular edition (example no. 162/200) has historically been exhibited and managed by the prestigious Parisian gallery;

The work is in excellent condition.

The work is sold within a WOODEN FRAME, WITH PROTECTIVE GLASS AND PASSE-PARTOUT.

This spectacular and extremely rare linoleum by Maestro Pablo Picasso, with a very low print run and hand signed, will be shipped with insurance worldwide.