Lot 4
  • 4

Pablo Picasso

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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Le Saltimbanque au Repos
  • Etching
  • 12 by 8.5 cm
  • 48.5 by 33.3 cm
Drypoint, 1905, one of 27 or 29 impressions on laid Japan paper (there was also an edition of 250 on Van Gelder paper), published in 1913 by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, framed

Condition

The print is in good condition, the full sheet. The extreme right sheet edge is frayed and there is pale mat-stain. Two unobtrusive fox marks in the bottom margin at center. The verso, with four adhesive stains in the corners and two hinge remnants along the top sheet edge.
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