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Pablo Picasso

  • Tête de Femme No.7, Portrait de Dora Maar
  • 1939 - 1939
  • Farb-Radierung (Kaltnadel) und Sandpapier auf Bütten (Montval) · Colour etching (dry point) and sandpaper on laid paper (Montval)
  • 44.45 x 33.65 cm
Picasso created a total of seven portraits of his muse Dora Maar between January and June 1939, all in a similar format. Picasso planned an edition of each print in 1939 and gave the “Bon à tirer” copies to his printer Roger Lacourière in Paris. Probably because of the outbreak of war in early September 1939, the editions were not printed immediately, but probably not until 1942. Because of the German occupation, Picasso kept the editions with him without signing or numbering them. The editions were only found after Picasso’s death in one of his studios.

Brigitte Baer points out that in the present print the pink has been printed over the blue and the brown here in black.

Rare proof before the plate was steeled. In the context of Picasso’s graphic œuvre a rarity of the first rank and in this form a unique specimen.
  • Figure
  • 1947
  • Zinkographie auf festem Arches Velin mit Trockenstempel - Zincograph on Arches wove paper with dry-stamp (Mourlot: ink and wash drawing composition on zinc)
  • 76 x 56.7 cm
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