PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973
Etching, 1933/34

On heavy wove paper, plate size: 87 x 145 mm, sheet size: 227 x 315 mm; with full margins.
Signed in pencil, inscribed 'Pour Lacourière' and '2e E. no 2/4'

• one of Picasso's rarest prints
• the only known proof of this state
• dedicated to Roger Lacourière, printer of the Suite Vollard

PROVENANCE
Roger Lacourière, Paris
Sotheby's, London, 6 October 1976, Lot 90
Private Collection
Christie's, New York, 6 November 1996, Lot 331
There acquired by a Private Collection, Switzerland
By descent until 2020

PRICE
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LITERATURE
Bernhard Geiser et Brigitte Baer, Picasso Peintre-Graveur, 373 II/II

This is the only known proof of this state, although, judging from the inscription in the lower left, there seem to have been originally 4 proofs. There is one proof of the first state in the Museé Picasso, Paris (MP 2406).