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This report was prepared by ConfirmArt.com from photograph-based evidence only. No physical inspection, laboratory testing, or institutional archive access was available for this assignment. Seller's listing title and descriptive text preserved in Descrption.docx , where the work is offered as an attributed Picasso portrait drawing dated 24.11.63 and described as coming from a "Private Collection." Submitted photographs of the questioned drawing, including overall recto, reverse, and close detail views, plus later images with a tape measure for approximate scale. Comparative images of authenticated Picasso works and reference signatures assembled in the present project folder
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The present work is executed in black ink on a small, vertically oriented sheet of brown paper or thin light card. From the photographs provided, the support appears to be machine-made and wove rather than laid, with a relatively smooth matte surface and no visible chain lines, laid lines, or watermark in the currently available images. The brown tone appears integral to the support itself rather than the result of simple age-darkening of an originally white sheet.
The comparative file assembled for the present sheet should begin with the two catalogue references related to Manolo Hugué , since these provide the closest presently identified Picassian precedents in terms of broad visual type: a vertically framed bust-length head, simplified into a spare linear schema, with enlarged eyes, an elongated neck, and a head covering or strongly banded cranial mass occupying the upper portion of the composition. These works are not cited because they prove authorship of the submitted
The questioned autograph evidence consists of the recto surname "Picasso" and the adjacent date "le 24.11.63." These elements are especially important because they are meant to authenticate the sheet directly. Picasso signature examples from the John Castagno reference book European Artists: Signatures and Monograms, 1800-1990 . Comparative authentic Picasso signatures (S1--S15).
The closest authentic family presently identified is Picasso's 1957 Manolo Hugué group, especially the Céret poster design and its related variants. This is the correct comparison because it provides the same broad visual type: a reduced bust-length head, enlarged eyes, elongated neck, and a cranial covering or banded hair mass treated as a major formal armature. 0.47 Authentic Picasso comparator: Affiche pour le Musée de Céret / Manolo Hugué , Cannes, 1957.
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