Lot 207
  • 207

(Limited Editions Club)

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

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Picasso, Pablo.  Six Signed Proofs of Original Etchings ... made to Illustrate an Edition of Aristophanes' Lysistrata Published by the Limited Editions Club.  New York: The Print Club, 1934



6 fine etched plates on wide-margined Arches wove (15 1/8  x 11 1/8 in.; 384 x 282 mm); very light spotting in lower margin of first plate.  Publisher's printed folder with design by Picasso; creasing in upper right margin of front cover.  Publisher's buckram portfolio; slight rubbing.

Literature

See Cramer 24

Condition

Condition report in body of cataloguing.
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Catalogue Note

Number 6 of 150 numbered sets of six proof plates, each signed by Picasso in pencil.  A fine set of the proofs with wide margins.