PICASSO, Pablo (Spanish 1881-1973)
'Dans L'Atelier: Peintre, Modèle et Spectatrice (In the Studio: Painter, Model and Spectator)', 1963.
Signed lower right.
Etching on Japon Nacré (Japan Mother-of-pearl) (ed. 4/5)
11x23.5cm (plate) 28.5x38.5cm (sheet)
PROVENANCE:
Denis Savill Private Collection.
LITERATURE:
Georges Bloch Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié, Volume I, 1904-1967, Berne, 1968 (Bl.1139). Geiser & Baer Picasso Peintre-graveur, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé, Volume V, 1959-1965, Berne, 1989 (B.1136, B.b.). Patrick Cramer, Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books Catalogue Raisonné, Geneva, 1983 (CR.130).
OTHER NOTES:
[Aldo] Crommelynck workshop printed 10 separate proofs on Japanese paper, not all numbered, aside an edition of 150 on Auvergne Richard de Bas vellum paper. The prints served as a frontispiece for the luxury edition of Hélène Parmelin Picasso: The Painter and His Model, published by Editions Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1965.
Estimate $4,000-7,000