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'Bathseba' (Bethsabée)

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€ 10 300
Auction dateClassic
04.12.2021 14:00UTC +02:00
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WETTMANN | Auktionshaus an der Ruhr
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Germany, Mülheim an der Ruhr
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ID 655559
Lot 20 | 'Bathseba' (Bethsabée)
Pablo Picasso (1881 Malaga - 1973 Mougins) (F)
'Bathseba' (Bethsabée), Farbaquatintaradierung auf BFK-Rives, ca. 1960, 45 cm x 56 cm Blattmaß, 26 cm x 36,8 cm Plattenmaß, 29/300 nummeriert, signiert, mit Trockenstempel 'Atelier Crommelynck Paris', leicht gewellt, obere Kante minimal knickfaltig, Papier am Rand minimal fleckig, minimal stockfleckig, Kaufbeleg anbei, Provenienz: Galerie Brusberg, Privatsammlung Hannover, Literatur: Online-Picasso Project, Sam Housten State University, OPP 66:017; "Jeder Maler hält sich für Rembrandt." (Pablo Picasso, in: Gilot, Françoise/Lake, Carlton, Life with Picasso, 1964, S. 51) Die Darstellung nach einer Geschichte aus dem Alten Testament zeigt die nackte Bathseba auf einer Bettstatt sitzend. In der Hand hält sie den Brief König Davids, in dem er ihr seine Liebe und Heiratsabsicht bekundet. Eine ähnliche Zeichnung zum Bathseba-Motiv mit dem Titel "Seated Nude and Another Figure" (Sitzender Akt mit weiterer Figur) aus dem Jahr 1963 zeigt bereits eine vorbereitende Beschäftigung mit dem Thema. Picasso bezieht sich in der Komposition auf das Bathseba-Gemälde Rembrandts, dessen Oeuvre eine seiner Inspirationsquellen darstellte. In seinem Atelier in Mougins besaß er zahlreiches Material zu Rembrandt, darunter das mehrbändige Werk von Otto Benesch. Die Aquatintaradierung wurde in einer nummerierten Auflage von 300 Exemplaren von der Pariser Druckerei Crommelynck herausgegeben, die 1963 eigens eine Druckwerkstatt in Mougins eingerichtet hatte, um Picassos berühmte 347er Serie direkt an Ort und Stelle drucken zu können.
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