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Pablo Picasso, La Minotauromachie, Paris, 25 March 1935, Line etching, copper engraving, reworked with the scraper, on Montval laid paper with watermark© Kornfeld — view on Kornfeld website ↗

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La Minotauromachie

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) · Paris, 25 March 1935

CHF 1,200,000 hammer

≈ $1,504,440≈ £1,110,944≈ €1,283,871

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Medium
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As published: “Line etching, copper engraving, reworked with the scraper, on Montval laid paper with watermark”
Support
Paper
Signed / inscribed
Signed circa 1947 · Pablo Picasso signature
Category
Etchings
Dimensions
49.5 x 69.2 cm, plate mark; 56.4 x 77.2 cm, sheet size
Auction house
Kornfeld
Sale
Auction 285: Works on Paper from the - E.W.K. Collection - Live Auction (285)
Date
September 12, 2025
Location
Bern, Switzerland
Lot
91
Estimate
CHF 1,000,000 – — (≈ $1,253,700) (≈ £925,786) (≈ €1,069,892)
Source
Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗
Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (4)
  • Galerie Heinz Berggruen, Paris
  • Private collection Germany
  • Auction Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 22 June 1990, lot 112
  • The Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection, Bern, with the collector's stamp on the back, Lugt 913b
Exhibitions (8)
  • Paris 1964, Galerie Berggruen, Picasso, 60 ans de gravures, cat. no. 111
  • Freiburg 1994, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Pablo Picasso, Gravures et lithographies, cat. no. 159
  • Davos 1998/1999, Kirchner Museum, Werke aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, cat. no. 51
  • Bern 2001/2002, Kunstmuseum, Picasso und die Schweiz, cat. no. 113 (with fig. of another copy)
  • Hamburg 2002/2003, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Picasso und die Mythen, cat. no. 75 (with fig. of another copy)
  • Vienna 2008/2009, Albertina, Wege der Moderne, Aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, cat. no. 39
  • Bern 2010, Zentrum Paul Klee, Klee trifft Picasso, fig. p. 223
  • Vevey 2018, Musée Jenisch, Picasso, Lever de rideau, l'arène, l'atelier, l'alcôve, cat. no. 41
Literature (3)
  • Catalogue raisonné: Brigitte Baer, Picasso, peintre-graveur, catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre gravé et des monotypes 1935-1945, vol. III, Bern 1984, no. 573/VII/B/c/4 (v. C)
  • Catalogue raisonné: Brigitte Baer, Picasso, peintre-graveur, Addendum aux tomes I à VII, Bern 1996, no. 573, one of the copies mentioned there
  • Catalogue raisonné: Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso, Katalog des graphischen Werkes 1904-1967, vol. I, Bern 1971, no. 288

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