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Pablo Picasso

Head of a Man (Buste d'homme), 1905, published 1913

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portfolio Title

Vollard Suite

Medium

drypoint on wove Van Gelder paper

Dimensions

plate: 12 x 9 cm (4 3/4 x 3 9/16 in.)

sheet: 43 x 32.8 cm (16 15/16 x 12 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

The John U. and Evelyn S. Nef Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Geiser/Baer, no. 5, State only (b2)

Accession Number

2011.60.52

Artists / Makers

Pablo Picasso (artist) Spanish, 1881 - 1973

Ambroise Vollard (publisher) French, 1867 - 1939

Louis Fort (printer) French, active first half 20th century

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Copyright

© 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Inscription

upper left in plate: Picasso / 2-05

Provenance

Evelyn Nef, Washington, D.C.; bequest to NGA, 2010.

Associated Names

Nef, Evelyn Stefansson

Bibliography

1968: Bloch, Georges. Pablo Picasso; catalogue de l'oeuvre grave et lithographie 1904-1967. Bern: Kornfeld und Klipstein, 1968, no. 4.

1990: Geiser, Bernhard and Brigette Baer. Picasso peintre-graveur. 2 vols. Berne: Éditions Kornfeld, 1990 (vol. 1) and 1992 (vol. 2), no. 5. See Baer 1986-1996 for volumes 1 and 2.

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