Member Profile – Private Art Dealers

Niall Fairhead
Images
19 Helenslea Avenue
London NW11 8NE, UK
tel.: +442084552700
mob.: +447976967216
http://www.images-art.co.uk
email: nfairhead@gmail.com


We are Private Art Dealers based in London. Our specialiaty is in prints, drawings, ceramics, photographs and sculpture by Leading School of Paris artists - especially Picasso and Matisse. We have two websites:

http://www.images-art.co.uk
This contains most of our inventory.

http://www.picasso-matisse.com
This deals with our two most important and prominent artists.

In recent months we have worked with Consultants organising Charity Auctions and our works have sold very well raining large sums for good causes. We are keen to develop this business further if we can


Our illustration piece is described:

Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Title:  Jeunne Homme Couronne de Feuillage (s.ta112)

Medium:  Original Colour Linocut ,  Mougins -  1st March  1962, , on velin Arches  paper,  in four colours ( Caramel clair, marron clair,  marron, noire - made in that order) , signed by the artist  in pencil. 3rd  and definitive state.  Dedicated “pour Ynes” in pencil

Size :  Image Size:  350 x 270  mms

Sheet Size: 349  x  269  mms

Edition:   There were Three states altogether for this work:

State 1 : The clear definitive maroon - State 2 : The Maroon definitive

State 3 (Our work) - The black definitive. This was published by Louis Leiris in an edition of 50 signed and numbered proofs. Baer records that a further 25 proofs, on the same paper, were reserved for the artist. Of these 8 were provided for the Gallerie Louis Leiris and about 15 went to the artist. No doubt our piece is one of those. It is further recorded that there is a proof dedicated to Picasso’s secretary, the poet Sabartes in the Barcelona Picasso Museum.

Provenance:  In 1936 Dora Maar was with Picasso in Mouguins accompanied also by Man Ray and Paul Eluard.  They met charming  two Italian sisters who were working in the Hotel Vaste Horizon. The two were employed by Picasso as cook and chamber maid.  Little by little these two girls began to take a prominent part in the life of the painter. Innes married in 1942 with Gustave Sassier and lived , together with their son Gerard, born in 1946, in a small apartment close to the painter at 7 rue des Grandes Augustines in Paris. Innes became a constant companion and friend of the artist. When Picasso moved to the South of France in 1955 Innes looked after the property owned by the artist in Paris and would come down to the south during the school holidays. When the painter sold his Paris apartment in 1967 Innes made the necessary arrangements for the move on Picasso’s behalf. Her son, Gerard, says today that the huge house was “un musee incroyable” with such a huge quantity of works by Picasso. Innes moved to Mougins where she took the job as chauffeur until 1970 when she left the artists service.  It can be seen that the relationship lasted from 1937 until 1970. Sometimes Innes served as a model and was no doubt privy to all the affairs of Picasso during this period with Dora Maar, Francoise Gillot, Marie-Therese Waller and Jacqueline Picasso. Picasso had two great confidants in his life during this turbulent period : Innes Sassier and Jaume Sabartes. During the time of her acquaintanceship with Picasso Innes was given a number of works consisting of graphics, livres illustrees, autographs, letters and drawings made by the artist for her son Gerard Sassier.  We ourselves were successful in buying some drawings from the collection of Gerald Sassier in recent Paris auctions. In Spanish “Innes” would be “Ynes”.   Looking at the Artcuriel catalogue in which the Gerard and Ines Sassier collection was sold there are numerous examples of dedications to “Ynes” written by the artist in exactly the same style. This, therefore, has to be the source of our work.  Picasso was seldom confident with the French language preferring his native Spanish.

Note: The Linoleum for this still exists today.  It took the artist and his printer, Arnera, about 10 days to complete this work and it’s edition The carving was probably started about 1st March 1962 and certainly finished no later then 10th March 1962. The edition was finished on the 10th March. While working on this Linocut reduction, working from a single block for all colours, Picasso was working on no less then 8 additional Linocuts. This process shows a degree of confidence in his abilities barely conceivable. At this date Picasso was 81 years old and that, using this method, he was unable to undo any mistake that might have occurred whilst cutting into the matrix.

Printed By: Arnerea Vallauris, France

Condition: With full margins, in pristine condition, aside from a minor cut in the bottom sheet edge, well away from the image.

Published by:  Gallerie Louis Leiris, Paris, 1963

Reference: Bloch 1087  , Baer  1307,  IIIrd State. B.b

See also : Artcuriel Sale, Paris, 22nd October 2007 -  Collection Ines et Gerard Sassier.