Lot 75
  • 75

After Pablo Picasso

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • After Pablo Picasso
  • Bacchanale
  • Aquatint
  • plate: 475 by 561mm 18 3/4 by 22 1/8 in
  • sheet: 556 by 763mm 21 7/8 by 30in
Aquatint printed in colours, circa 1955/60, signed in pencil, numbered 102/300, on BFK Rives wove paper, published by Atelier Crommelynck, Paris, with their blindstamp, framed

Provenance

Acquired by Lord & Lady Attenborough before 1985

Condition

With full margins (a deckle edge at each side), in good condition apart from uneven mount- and light-staining, three minor areas of skinning in the upper and left margins, two minute pin holes in image at left and right, the verso with tape-staining across upper and left sheet edges, pale backboard-staining, handling creases and the occasional scuff mark (mainly visible verso), framed.
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