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Mon 31 Aug, 2009 10:46 am
My husband recently inherited from his mother a Picasso lithograph that I cannot identify. Her sister who lived in NYC gave it to her in the 1960s. It has Picasso's name & what I think is a date in the left-hand corner. It looks like "Le P 12.60 which I think means 1 December 1960. "Le Premier" is how the first day of the month is sometimes written in French. It has a label on the back that says "Picasso Arts Inc." It is black & white and looks like the white profile of a face on the left flowing into the black profile of a face on the right. I searched the Picasso Online Project for 1960 & didn't find anything, and a local art gallery (Roy Saper) couldn't identify it. Nearby libraries don't own the Catalogue Raisonnes. I really just want to know the title of this lithograph because we like it very much. Thanks for any help you can give me.
Why not contact the auction houses? Sotheby's etc. Also, look at the publisher if the catalogue you mention and email them as well. If your french isn't up to snuff, Google can do the transcribing.
No way would an orginal have sticker on the back thqt says Picasso Arts inc.
No way would an orginal have sticker on the back that says Picasso Arts Iinc.
There have been exhibitions which such lithographs, so.
Like this one, in 1967:
(Source:
The Evening Independent via google)
The Picasso-Graphic Museum in Münster/Germany has the largest collections of Picasso grahics. They might possibly be of some help:
http://www.graphikmuseum-picasso-muenster.de/index.php?id=46&L=1
The "Le P 12.60" looks more like a 'serial number' than like a date, I think.
Thank you all for your suggestions.
Choc
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