PABLO PICASSO EXPOSITION

PABLO PICASSO johndaviesgallery JANUARY 2024

1. Female Head with Necklace £750 Picasso Linogravures, linocut, 1962, 27 x 22.3 cm

PRIVATE VIEW INVITATION Saturday, 27th January 11am – 4.30pm

Sunday 28th January 11am - 3.00pm

The Exhibition will be hanging at the John Davies Gallery from Saturday, 27th January through to Saturday, 17th February Wednesday – Friday 10.30am – 4.30pm, Saturday 11am – 4pm These original works of art are guaranteed as to authenticity and quality so clients can be assured of purchasing with confidence.

Most exhibits are subject to Artist’s Retail Right at 4% email: gallery@johndaviesgallery.com telephone: 01608 652255

Buffon's Histoire Naturelle etchings with aquatint and drypoint, 1942, rare de tête ed 36 Picasso's Buffon is one of the greatest bestiaries of the twentieth century. Eager to test out the new technique of sugar-lift aquatint, Picasso threw himself into the project completing an etching a day. The spontaneity of the plates is attested by the freehand margins, the rapidly drawn line and the use of fingerprints for textural variety.

2. L'Abeille £1,950 + 4% ARR

3. L'Araignée £2,750 + 4% ARR

26.5 x 21 cm

32 x 20.5 cm

4. Le Dindon £2,750 + 4% ARR

5. Rooster £2,500 + 4% ARR

27.5 x 22.5 cm

main ed 226, 26.5 x 21 cm

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Carnet de le Californie collotype, 1959, ed1500

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6. Atelier "La Californie", Cannes 1.11.55 XV £1,245 + 4% ARR

7. Atelier "La Californie", Cannes 19.11.55 I £1,245 + 4% ARR

26.5 x 42 cm

26.5 x 42 cm

8. Atelier "La Californie", Cannes 19.11.55 II £1,245 + 4% ARR

9. Atelier "La Californie", Cannes 8.11.55 I £1,245 + 4% ARR

26.5 x 42 cm

26.5 x 42 cm

100. Atelier "La Californie", Cannes 8.11.55 V £1,245 + 4% ARR

11. Atelier "La Californie", Cannes 8.11.55 VI £1,245 + 4% ARR

26.5 x 42 cm

26.5 x 42 cm

Carnet de le Californie collotype, 1959, ed1500 In 1955 Picasso had taken up residence in La Californie, a sprawling Art Nouveau villa in Cannes with sweeping views over the Mediterranean. Within several months he had embarked upon an extensive series of paintings and drawings depicting his new workspace.

These collotypes are produced from one of Picasso's sketchbooks executed at that time between November 1st 1955 and January 14th 1956.

12. Jacqueline Roque 21.11.55 VI £1,245 + 4% ARR 42 x 26.5 cm

14. Jacqueline Roque 26.11.55 £1,245 + 4% ARR 42 x 26.5 cm

13. Jacqueline Roque 21.11.55 VII £1,245 + 4% ARR 42 x 26.5 cm

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15. Faune et Femme Nu,1936 £1,750 + 4% ARR lithograph with pochoir, 1967, ed 500, 37 x 51.5 cm

From the suite La Flute Double, designed and printed in an edition of 500. The suite consists of 15 lithographs with pochoir, after watercolours by Picasso. They were executed between 1932 and 1955 and printed by Jacomet.

16. Jacqueline en Espagnole,1955 £1,250 + 4% ARR lithograph with pochoir, 1967, ed 500, 53 x 42 cm

17. Paysage de Dinard £1,950 + 4% ARR

18. Femme Assise £2,250 + 4% ARR

19. Paysage £2,250 + 4% ARR

lithograph after Picasso, 1982, ed 500

lithograph after Picasso, 1982, ed 500,

lithograph after Picasso, 1982, ed 500

43.5 x 52 cm

59 x 39.4 cm

56.4 x 45.5 cm

Printed in an edition of 500 from the Collection of Marina Picasso, signed by Marina, the granddaughter of Picasso.

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Sable Mouvant aquatint, 1966, HC aside from ed 20 on Japon, 38 x 27.5 cm signed by Picasso Picasso's illustrations for Sable Mouvant (Quicksand), Pierre Reverdy's last poem, depict the artist working with his model, selected from the series entitled: Peintre et Modèle which Picasso worked on from 1963 to 1965.

These painterly aquatints depict the artist, painter or sculptor, before a female model in his studio.

The work was issued as a tribute to Reverdy who died in 1960 and who had played a significant role within the group of Surrealist artists and writers including Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, André Breton and Picasso. This edition of 20 only on Japon is very scarce.

20. Peintre et Modele Accoude signed, £12,450 + 4% ARR

21. Sculpteur Devant sa Sellette, avec un Spectateur Barbu signed, £12,450 + 4% ARR

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Prosper Mérimée's Carmen engravings, 1949, ed 320 Carmen, Prosper Mérimée's novella, was written in 1845 (the definitive version appeared in 1847). It is at once a rather romanticised account of the customs of the Andalusian gypsies and the dramatic story of a fatal passion. The story, which became popular through Georges Bizet's opera (1875), evoked in Picasso associations with Spain and the corrida.

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22. Untitled 4 £1,250 + 4% ARR

23. Untitled 2 £1,250 + 4% ARR

24 Untitled 9 £1,450 + 4% ARR

21.2 x 17 cm

24.5 x 20 cm

22 x 17.5 cm

25. Untitled 17 £1,250 + 4% ARR

26. Untitled 13 £1,450 + 4% ARR

27.Untitled 3 £1,450 + 4% ARR

23.5 x 16 cm

22 x 19 cm

22 x 19 cm

La Célestine etchings with aquatint, 1971, ed 400 Picasso worked on the plates for La Célestine almost daily.

Using various techniques (sometimes on the same plate), he was impatient to see the impression as soon as it was printed.

This must rank as one of Picasso's most important and soughtafter late suites.

28. Homme nu Assis en Tailleur, et Deux Femmes 8 x 6 cm £1,500 + 4% ARR

30. Célestine et Fille, avec un Chat et un Jeune Client 9 x 12 cm £2,000 + 4% ARR

29. Petite Infante Accroupie et Courtisan 8.4 x 6 cm £1,500 + 4% ARR

31. Petit Vieux Flatté par la Célestine 5.6 x 8.4 cm £1,500 + 4% ARR

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La Comedie Humaine lithographs after Picasso, 1954, printed in Paris by the great French atelier Mourlot Frères In 1954, aware of the artist’s interest in Balzac, the publisher Tériade commissioned Picasso to create a series of illustrations depicting scenes from the writer’s greatest work, La Comédie Humaine.

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32. 27.1.54.I £750

33. 29.1.54.III £750

24 x 32 cm

24 x 32 cm

34. 29.1.54.V £750

35. 3.2.54.II £850

24 x 32 cm

24 x 32 cm

36. 31.1.54.VII £950 + 4% ARR

37. 30.1.54.III £750

24 x 32 cm

24 x 32 cm

Picasso Linogravures Between 1958 and 1961 Picasso made many linocuts, a process that he found hugely stimulating.

These linocuts were first issued in signed editions of 50 by Galerie Louise Leiris. In 1962, in collaboration with Picasso and Galerie Louise Leiris. These new linoleum prints were made at 42% of the original size.

38. Bacchanal with Goat £950 + 4% ARR

39. Bacchanal with Pair of Lovers £950 + 4% ARR

27 x 32.5 cm

27 x 32.5 cm

40. Picador Goading Bull £950 + 4% ARR

41. Picador Goading Bull (white) £550

27 x 32.5 cm

27 x 32.5 cm

42. Picador Goading Bull with Matador £650

43. Picador Goading Bull with Matador (Red) £750

27 x 32.5 cm

27 x 32.5 cm

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Toros y Toreros offset lithographs, 1957 The suite, which is largely devoted to Picasso's drawings, wash-drawings and recent sketches on the theme of bullfighting, is the result of collaboration... between the great artist and the publisher.

Printed in an unnumbered edition of 150 only.

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44. 11.3.59. I £950 + 4% ARR

45. 12.3.59. I £950 + 4% ARR

37 x 27 cm

37 x 27 cm

46. 12.3.59 II £950 + 4% ARR

47. 8.7.59 £950 + 4% ARR

37 x 27 cm

37 x 27 cm

48. 1.8.57 I £950 + 4% ARR

49. 10.3.59 XII £950 + 4% ARR

27 x 37 cm

27 x 37 cm

Vingt Poèmes Luis de Góngora y Argote etchings with aquatint 1948, ed 235

50. A woman looking at herself in a mirror 33.5 x 20 cm £3,000 + 4% ARR

51. Face of a woman framed with abundant hair 31.5 x 20.5 cm £3,000 + 4% ARR

Picasso was first attracted to the work of the sixteenthcentury poet Góngora during the 1920s, when the poet, who was known for his mannered style and illogical use of metaphors, was resurrected by the Surrealists.

Picasso copied out the 20 sonnets by hand, transferred them to copperplates, and embellished them with flourishes, sketches, and figures. He also made nineteen female head portraits, and one of Góngora himself, to accompany the poems.

52. Head of a woman with ornamental hair style 31.6 x 24 cm £3,000 + 4% ARR

53. Portrait of Góngora 32 x 24.5 cm £2,500 + 4% ARR

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Original Lithographic Posters for Galerie de la Colombe Exhibition posters of Picasso's Portrait Imaginaires from his late period for an exhibition in Vallauris at the Galerie de la Colombe.

In January 1969, at the age of 87, Picasso received a shipment of painting supplies packed with sheets of brown corrugated cardboard. Inspired by these 'blank canvases', Picasso set about painting a series of imaginary portraits over the next four months in simple brilliant colours.

55. Picasso - Portraits Imaginaires 27.2.69 III offset lithograph, 1977, signed in plate, 70 x 51 cm

£1,950 + 4% ARR

54. Picasso - Portraits Imaginaires 5.6.4.69 offset lithograph, 1979, signed in plate, 70 x 51 cm

£1,950 + 4% ARR

56. Picasso - Portraits Imaginaires 6.4.69. I offset lithograph, signed in plate, 70 x 51 cm

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£1,950 + 4% ARR

Original Lithographic Posters

57. Avignon Prolongation

58. Picasso, 45 Linoléums Gravés

lithograph, 1973, 71 x 57 cm

lithograph, 1960, ed 1800, 63 x 49 cm

£750

£1,250 + 4% ARR

59. Exposition Vallauris - 1957

60. XXIVe Festival D'Avignon - Au Palais des Papes lithograph, 1970, 78 x 52.5 cm £950 + 4% ARR

linocut, 1957, 79 x 59 cm

£1,950 + 4% ARR

61. The Painter and his Model lithograph, 1972, 76 x 53.8 cm

£950 + 4% ARR

62. Composizione Con Pipa £950 + 4% ARR

63. Untitled (The small bull fight) £950 + 4% ARR

hand-coloured pochoir after Picasso, 1955, ed 200, 27 x 20 cm

lithograph, 1958, ed 2000, signed in plate, 31.5 x 24 cm

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