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Pablo Picasso, La femme au tambourin, Paris 1939, Aquatint and mezzotint on wove paper© Kornfeld — view on Kornfeld website ↗

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La femme au tambourin

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) · Paris 1939

CHF 900,000 hammer

≈ $1,062,450≈ £809,979≈ €958,803

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Medium
Aquatint · Prints & multiples all aquatint results →
As published: “Aquatint and mezzotint on wove paper”
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Paper
Signed / inscribed
Signed · Pablo Picasso signature
Category
Etchings
Dimensions
66.5 x 51.3 cm, platemark; 76.9 x 57 cm, sheet size
Auction house
Kornfeld
Sale
Auction 280: Highlights from the - Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection - Live Auction (280)
Date
September 13, 2024
Location
Bern, Switzerland
Lot
29
Estimate
CHF 800,000 – — (≈ $944,400) (≈ £719,982) (≈ €852,270)
Source
Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗
Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (2)
  • Estate of Roger Lacourière, Paris, acquired there by
  • The Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection, Bern, with the collector's stamp on the reverse, Lugt 913b
Exhibitions (8)
  • Salzburg/Winterthur 1984/1985, Rupertinum/Kunstmuseum, Von Goya bis Warhol, Meisterwerke der Graphik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts aus einer Schweizer Privatsammlung, cat. no. 196, ill.
  • Cologne 1988, Museum Ludwig, Picasso im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939 bis 1945, cat. no. 61, ill. p. 57 and p. 227
  • Hovikodden 1992, Sonja Henie-Niels Onstad Foundations, Picasso
  • Fribourg 1994, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Pablo Picasso, Gravures et lithographies, cat. no. 167, ill. and ill. p. 153
  • San Francisco/New York 1998/1999, California Palace of the Legion of Honour/Guggenheim Museum, Picasso and the War, cat. no. 26
  • Bern 2001/2002, Kunstmuseum, Picasso und die Schweiz, cat. no. 129b, p. 371
  • Hamburg 2002/2003, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Picasso und die Mythen, cat. no. 169, p. 255, ill. p. 221
  • Bern 2010, Zentrum Paul Klee, Klee trifft Picasso, ill. p. 215, p. 277
Literature (2)
  • Catalogue raisonné: Baer 646/V/A/b (of C), one of the specimens mentioned there
  • Catalogue raisonné: Bloch 310

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