Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
Medium: Original drypoint Etching, Paris, 1905, on Arches FRANCE (watermarked) paper. STRUCK LATER FROM THE CANCELLED PLATE. This series was not signed or numbered.
Edition: The Prototype was editioned with 250 on Van Gelder paper and 27/.29 pn Japan. It is unknown how many proofs were made from the cancelled plate - or, indeed, when these were struck.
Reference: Geiser, Bernhard and Brigitte Baer. 1986-1996. Picasso: Peintre-Graveur, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et des monotypes, Volume 1 . Berne: Kornfeld. Number 7, Pages 28/29
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Published by: Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1913
Printed by: Louis Fort, Paris, France
Size: 292 x 250 mms (Image size) ; 38 x 48 cms (Paper size)