Minotaure caressant une femme, from: La Suite Vollard (B. 191; Ba. 350)

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Pablo Picasso
Minotaure caressant une femme, from: La Suite Vollard (B. 191; Ba. 350)
etching, 1933, on Arches wove paper, not signed, inscribed 1er etat, an extremely rare proof of the first state (of two), before the steel-facing of the plate, the bevelling of the plate edges and before the edition of 310 published by A. Vollard in 1939, printed by Lacourière, Paris, the full sheet, in very good condition, framed
P. 300 x 367 mm., S. 453 x 570 mm.

Provenance

With Galerie L. Leiris, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Brigitte Baer records only one impression before steel-facing, now in the Musée Picasso, Paris. The present impression was offered by Galerie Leiris and must have come directly from the artist or the printer.

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