414 - DORA MAAR (1907–1997)
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Estimate €10,000 - €12,000

Description

DORA MAAR (1907–1997) Portrait with Cubist scratch marks by Pablo Picasso, Paris, studio at 29 Rue d’Astorg, winter 1935–1936 Unmounted silver gelatin print, c. 1960 on Agfa-Brovira Mat paper (thick card stock). Dimensions: 29.8 x 23.1 cm. Good condition. The print was produced by superimposing several scraped negatives, 3 in all, probably. These negatives were taken from the same portrait photography session of Picasso carried out at the studio on Rue d’Astorg in Paris. One of these gelatin-silver negatives on a flexible cellulose nitrate base (12 x 9 cm) is in the collection of the Centre Pompidou (Inventory number: AM 2004-0163 (1633). The Centre Pompidou believes that this scraping work was carried out in the 1980s.

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About the sale Paul BENARROCHE Collection and others | Old and modern photographs | Part II

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414 - DORA MAAR (1907–1997) See original version (French)

414 - DORA MAAR (1907–1997)
See original version (French)