Dix Pochoirs

Galerie Paul Rosenberg was located at no. 21, Rue La Boetie. Picasso and his first wife Olga Koklova moved into an apartment in the same street in November 1918 and a year later Rosenberg opened an exhibition of Picasso's watercolours and drawings relating to his stage designs for Diaghilev's production of Le Tricorne. According to the original gallery label which accompanies this lot this rare collection of pochoirs was issued at around this time. Very little is known about the edition although the pochoirs seem to relate to Picasso's set and costume designs for Parade. To our knowledge this is the first grouping of its kind to be offered at auction. Another set of ten is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.