Lithograph. Signed and numbered. From an edition of 50 copies. On Arches wove paper (with the watermark). 50 x 65 cm. , size of sheet. [KA].
More works from the Max Niedermayer Collection, Limes-Verlag, Wiesbaden, are coming up in auctions throughout the year.
- A humorous example of Pablo Picasso's unmistakably reduced visual language. - The motif appears on a famous poster that Picasso designed for an exhibition in the town after moving to Vallauris in 1947. - Mythological creatures like this faun head are an important motif in Picasso's graphic oeuvre.
LITERATURE: Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso. Catalogue de l'œuvre gravé et lithographié 1904-1967, Bern 1984, vol. I, cat. no. 529 (illustrated) Fernand Mourlot, Picasso. Lithograph, Paris 1970, catalogue raisonné no. 120 bis (of 120 ter) (illustrated) - - Ulrike Gauss, Picasso. Die Lithographie, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, no. 381 (illustrated, different copy).