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Lot 89
  • 89

After Pablo Picasso

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

  • After Pablo Picasso
  • Le Chapeau aux Raisins
  • Collotype
  • image: 535 by 450 mm 21 1/8 by 17 3/4 in
  • sheet: 760 by 563 mm 30 by 22 1/4 in
Offset lithograph and collotype printed in colors, c. 1960, signed in pencil, numbered 43/350, on Arches wove paper, with the ink stamp of the publisher, Guy Spitzer on the verso, framed

Condition

The print is in generally good condition, with full margins. The sheet is discolored throughout by light- and mat-stain with foxing at the periphery of the margins. Several pin holes in each corner and there is stray ink in the top and bottom margins. Additional imperfections include an area of yellow discoloration to the right of the pencil signature and the sheet is brittle. The verso, with surface soiling throughout, stray ink and two hinge remnants on the top sheet edge.
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