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La Femme qui pleure I, 1937 Signed 'Picasso' lower right and numbered '13/15' lower left Marina Picasso collection stamp verso Baer's third state in a series of 7 Etching, drypoint, aquatint and scraper on Montval paper 30 ¼ x 21 ⅞ in, 77 x 55.6 cm Provenance Estate of the artist Marina Picasso, Paris (Lugt 3698) Private Collection (by descent from above) (with) Margo Pollins Schab, Inc., New York Alan and Marianne Schwartz, Detroit (acquired from the above in 1985) Private Collection (by descent from above) Private Collection, Paris Exhibitions Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Master prints of five centuries: the Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection, 13 October 1990 – 6 January 1991, no. 205, pp. 218-219, illus. Literature G. Bloch, Pablo Picasso: Catalogue de l'œuvre gravé et lithographié, 1904-1967, Vol. I, Berne, 1971, no. 1333, p. 288, illus. B. Baer, Picasso, peintre-graveur: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et des monotypes, 1935-1945, Vol. III, Berne, 1986, no. 623, p. 120, illus. La femme qui pleure I is one of the most important prints of the 20th century. The woman depicted relates to Picasso's famed mural Guernica, the iconic anti-war painting which commemorates the German Air Force's bombing of the Basque town of Guernica, at the behest of Franco on 26th April 1937. The event caused outcry internationally. Fuelled by his abhorrence of the atrocity Picasso created Guernica as his submission for the Spanish Pavilion at the International Exposition that summer. An image of the weeping woman was originally inserted into the lower right of the painting, but removed when Picasso felt the image might dominate the work. The image obsessed Picasso, with the artist producing thirty six works on the subject between May and October 1937. In all, Picasso depicts his muse Dora Maar in various states of anguish. Picasso created La femme qui pleure I in July 1937. He made seven states of the print although only editioned two – the third and seventh – with the present work coming from the third. The remaining five states were produced as artist proofs in editions of one or two, and are now largely kept at Musée Picasso in Paris. A total of forty two prints were created across all seven states, with at least nineteen in museum collections. A number of museums have editions of the third state in their collections including MoMA, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and Musée Picasso, Paris. Picasso or his heirs kept edition numbers eight to fifteen of the third state in their private collection for many years. Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 Picasso, Femme en pleurs, 1937, Tate Gallery, London 28