Fumer à la Cigarette Rouge
Pablo Picasso
Fumer à la Cigarette Rouge
etching
August 22, 1964
An original hand-signed Pablo Picasso etching.
August 22, 1964
Original soft-ground etching printed in colors on Auvergne laid paper bearing the “Richard de Bas” and “Auvergne a la Main” watermarks.
Hand-signed in pencil in the margin lower right Picasso, dated in the plate “22.8.64 / I” (in reverse) upper left.
A superb impression of Baer’s only state, printed after the steelfacing of the plate, from the edition of 50, numbered in pencil in the margin lower left (there were 15 additional artist’s proofs, for an overall edition of 65, the plate was cancelled in 1967). Published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, 1965; printed by Pennequin at Atelier Crommelynck, Paris.
Catalog: Bloch 1167; Baer 1167.B.b.1.
