Pablo Picasso - The Bath (1905)

Lithograph from 1979 by Studio d'Arte Perna – Milano
Numbered lower left in Roman numerals “/CC” (out of 200 copies)
Signed in the plate “Picasso 1905” at the top right with notarial documents.
Publisher's dry stamp bottom right
Dimensions: 48 x 36cm
Sold without frame

Original lithograph Studio d'Arte Perna - Milano after “Le Bain” (1905). Among Picasso's most beautiful works, it was chosen by the estate to be published by Studio d'Arte Perna for its “Picasso at the Opera” collection.

In 1905, Picasso met Guillaume Apollinaire and André Salmon. He moved to Montmartre, at the Bateau-Lavoir, and met his first companion: Fernande Olivier, continuing his affair with Madeleine. This is the beginning of the pink period. The themes covered are joy and existential concern. He remains melancholy and dominated by love; there are also many references to the world of the zoo and the circus. Harlequin on the left, without a suit, recognizable by his hat, his drum posed contemplates with tenderness this intimate scene of the bath of a Child in the arms of his companion. Picasso saw in Harlequin his double. The whole is not without evoking the novel of paternity, linked to the child that Picasso almost had by Madeleine in 1905.

Extract from the publisher's general catalog dating from 1979:

All copies are numbered and provided with a Certificate of Guarantee with stamp and handwritten signature of the publisher, as well as a legal document from a notary, attesting to the authenticity of the signature, the edition and the numbering. Our editions are unique and irreplaceable: all lithographic stones and associated plates are destroyed at the end of the print run. Our editions are recommended by the National Federation of Gallerists of Italy Rome, of the Free National Confederation of Commerce and Industry. (LP Studio d'Arte Perna Milan since 1958 Collection of Art and Author)