Lot 76
  • 76

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
3,500 - 4,500 USD
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • RaphaĆ«l et la Fornarina. VIII: Le Pape entre, avec un sourire patelin (B. 1783; Ba. 1800)
  • Etching on Rives wove paper
  • plate: 148 by 209 mm 5 7/8 by 8 1/4 in
  • sheet: 281 by 347 mm 11 by 13 5/8 in
Etching, 1968, signed in pencil, a proof aside from the numbered edition of 50, plate 303 from the 347 Series, on Rives wove paper, printed by Crommelynck, Mougins

Condition

The print is in good condition, the full sheet. A slight undulation to the sheet. Two small fox marks, one in the top left of the image, one to the left of the artist's signature. One minuscule trace of stray ink at the lower left edge of the sheet. (Faint spot of surface soiling at the top corner.) The verso in good condition, with two remnants of hinging tape at the upper edge. (A few minuscule fox marks and scattered faint surface soiling throughout.)
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