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PABLO PICASSO Hand Signed Lithograph 1959 Bull Fight Spanish

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PABLO PICASSO Hand Signed Lithograph 1959 Bull Fight Spanish
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PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973
Málaga 1881-1973 Mougins (Spanish)

Title: The Pike / La Pique, 1959

Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph on Arches vellum paper

Paper Size: 50.5 x 65.8 cm / 19.8 x 25.9 in

Additional Information: This Lithograph is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Picasso" in the lower right margin.
It is also numbered in pencil "47/50" in the lower left margin.
The paper bears the Arches watermark on the lower margin.
The work was printed by Fernand Mourlot, Paris in an edition of 50 signed and numbered impressions plus six artist proofs.
Picasso used pen and crayon with frottage on transfer paper that was transferred to a stone plate. He worked on this lithograph on the 6th of January 1959 in Cannes.

Literature:
1. Bloch, Georges. 2004. Pablo Picasso: Catalogue of the Printed Work 19904-1967 tome I. .
Reference: Bloch 868;
2. Mourlot, Fernand. 2009. Picasso: The Lithographic Work - Volume II - 1949-1969. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts.
Reference: Mourlot 315.

Condition: Very good condition.