Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu
1931
Artist, Spanish, 1881 - 1973
Author, French, 1799 - 1850
Author, French, 1849 - 1934
Artwork overview
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Medium
unbound volume with 13 etchings,2 wood-engravings on the cover and 67 wood-engravings after Picasso drawings, all on BFK Rives paper with deckled edges
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 33.4 × 26.2 × 4 cm (13 1/8 × 10 5/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
case: 34.2 × 26.8 × 5.4 cm (13 7/16 × 10 9/16 × 2 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2013.169.7.1-13
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Catalogue Raisonné
Geiser/Baer 1990-1992, nos. 123-135
Associated Artworks
See all 13 artworks
Sculpteur devant sa sculpture, avec jeune fille au turban et tête sculptée (Sculptor before His Sculpture with a Young Woman Wearing a Headdress, and a Sculpted Head)
Pablo Picasso, Honoré de Balzac, Albert Besnard
1931
Peintre devant son tableau (Painter before His Canvas)
Pablo Picasso, Honoré de Balzac, Albert Besnard
1931
Trois nus debout, avec esquisses de visages (Three Standing Nudes with Sketches of Faces)
Pablo Picasso, Honoré de Balzac, Albert Besnard
1931
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Zucker; acquired in 1976 by Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, Boston; (Christie's via Ursus Books, New York, sale Tuesday 29 October, 2013, no. 894); purchased by Anonymous Donor; gift to NGA, 2013.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1990
Geiser, Bernhard and Brigette Baer. Picasso peintre-graveur. 2 vols. Berne: Éditions Kornfeld, 1990 (vol. 1) and 1992 (vol. 2), nos. 123-135. See Baer 1986-1996 for volumes 1 and 2.
Inscriptions
inside upper cover upper left in blue pen: 76-47-10, in graphite upper right on first gathering cover: 2781/894
Watermarks
BFK and BFK Rives