Color lithograph, paper, 59 x 48 cm in light passe-partout 70 x 59 cm.
Signed on the plate under the composition p. d. "Picasso" and hand-numbered "71/200" in pencil.
Dry stamp of the certified publisher with the inscription "PICASSO"
On the reverse, color facsimile of Picasso's drawing with signature and publisher's information - "Copyright Foundation Pablo Picasso / edition amount (200 pieces) / each piece numbered".
Original publisher's certificate.
Pablo Picasso painted Nature morte au chandelier in 1937, a tumultuous year in his life, both on a personal and historical level. It was a period in which he became increasingly involved with the photographer Dora Maar; at the same time, the Spanish Civil War was tearing apart his homeland, which effectively became his exile in France. Over the course of 1937, Picasso painted a number of still-life compositions that were imbued with an enclosed, nocturnal atmosphere.
