Lot 12
  • 12

PABLO PICASSO | Vénus et l'amour, d'après Cranach (B. 1835; Ba. 876)

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Vénus et l'amour, d'après Cranach (B. 1835; Ba. 876)
  • plate: 787 by 428 mm 31 by 16 7/8 in
  • sheet: 1000 by 596 mm 39 3/8 by 23 1/2 in
Aquatint and drypoint, 1949, printed in 1975-77, with the stamped signature and numbered in pencil 8/50 (total edition includes 15 artist's proofs), on Rives wove paper, printed by Crommelynck, Paris, published in 1979 by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, framed

Provenance

Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by David Teiger in 1999

Condition

The print is in good condition, with full margins. Extremely faint mat-stain and an occasional pale, minuscule fox mark in the margins and on the verso, visible on close inspection. The verso with a few small hinge remnants along sheet edges.
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