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Winterauktionen 24.–25.11.2023
Picasso, Pablo
1881 Málaga - 1973 Mougins.
«El Hospital de Santa Cruz y de San Pablo (El Hospital de Barcelona)».
Aquatint on brownish wove paper. Signed lower right and numbered 82/182 upper left. Dated «13.5.71» inversely upper right in the plate.
H 12, W 9 cm (plate),
H 17,5, W 14 cm (passepartout). Gallery frame.
Work from an edition of 182 signed and numbered copies. Published by Gustavo Gili S.A., Barcelona. Published in the book «L'Hospital de Santa Creu i de Santa Pau» in honour of the doctor Cinto Reventós. Using the proceeds from the book a department for respiratory disease, the so-called Reventós-Picasso Foundation, was set up in the hospital in which Reventós had worked for many years.
Depicted is an old man with a well-groomed beard and a large hat, like those worn by the Spanish cavaliers of the 16th century. At the end of the 1960s, this figure appeared again and again in Picasso's graphic work. The invalidated copper plate of the aquatint is in the Museu Picasso de Barcelona under inventory number MPB 112.097.
Provenance: purchased at Sala Gaspar, Barcelona, in 1973, since then private collection High Rhine.
Invoice: Sala Gaspar, Barcelona, 17.08.1973, invoice amount 2450 DM (approx. 1253 €).
Catalogue raisonné: Bloch 2014; Cramer 151.

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