A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection
Pablo Picasso
Raphaël et la Fornarina I-XX, from the 347 series
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60,000 - 80,000 USD
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A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Raphaël et la Fornarina I-XX, from the 347 series
each signed in pencil and numbered 1/50
twenty etchings on Rives wove paper
largest plate: 16⅜ by 25⅜ in. 415 by 496 mm.
largest sheet: 22⅜ by 25⅜ in. 569 by 646 mm.
Executed in 1968; these impressions are number 1 from the edition of 50 plus 17 artist's proofs, published by Galerie Louise Leiris.
(20 prints)
Ex coll. Georges Bloch, and with his inkstamp on the versos
Sotheby's, New York, 4 November, 1988, lot 476
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Bloch 1776-1795; Baer 1793-1812
This present series of twenty prints, plate nos. 296 - 315 from the 347 series, has been referred to as The Erotic Suite in past cataloguing.