Lot 894
Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973 (ES)
Femme au fauteuil No. 1 (Le manteau polonais), 1949
Lithograph on Arches wove paper.
Sheet: H 755 mm W 566 mm; Plate: H 698 mm W 546 mm.
45/50. Signed lower right: Picasso. Verso inscribed: 148, Pablo Picasso, Femme au Fauteuil I.
Printer and publisher: Mourlot, Paris.
Provenance:
Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, Kunsthaus Zürich;
Swiss Private Property, Acquired in 1954 as part of the exhibition ‘Pablo Picasso at the Kunsthaus’;
by inheritage to the present owner.
Literature:
Mourlot 134/III.; Bloch 586.
In this iconic lithograph, Picasso depicts the painter Françoise Gilot sitting in an armchair. Gilot is wearing the so-called ‘Manteau polonais’, the coat that Picasso had brought her back from his trip with Paul Éluard to the peace congress in Poland in August/September 1948.
The artist had begun the lithograph in December 1948 in the Mourlot studios in Paris and completed it on 16 January 1949.
| CHF | 30'000 / 50'000 |
| EUR | 31'000 / 53'000 |
| USD | 34'000 / 57'000 |
Sold for CHF 38'000 (excl. buyers premium)