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Semi abstract

Item date(s): 6 Julliet 49

Pablo Picasso  - (featured artist)
Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982) - (drawing by)


Pages: Single sheet
Size: 266mm
Technique: Pencil on paper
Language: English
Inscription: Signed W. B. This way up [!]


Place publication: Paris
Publisher: The artist

Additional notes:
Drawn on a sheet of paper with a square at the top right cut out. The sheet is slightly torn.

Drawn on 6th July 1949 in the Picasso cubist style shortly after Battiss met Picasso on 3rd June 1949. See: GB/50142. The inscription is upside-down and the drawing, right way up, is inscribed" This way up.

Ref: GB/30395



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