Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
La Danse des faunes. 1957.
Lithograph on ochre plate.
Signed and with the mirror-inverted date. From an edition of 1.000 copies. On Arches wove paper (with the watermark). 40.9 x 52.8 cm (16.1 x 20.7 in). Sheet: 48,2 x 62,8 cm (18,9 x 24,7 in).
This composition was published in Nice for the benefit of the newspaper "Le Patriote". [KA].

PROVENANCE: Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

LITERATURE: Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso. Catalogue de l’œuvre gravé et lithographié 1904-1967, Bern 1984, CR no. 830 (illu. in b/w).
Fernand Mourlot, Picasso. Lithograph, Paris 1970, CR no. 291 (illu. in b/w).
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Felix Reuße, Pablo Picasso, Die Lithographie, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, cat.-no. 699 (illu. in color). (Other copy of the edition).

In good condition. The lower edge of the sheet is slightly irregularly cut. With slight mount staining.