Le Repose du sculpteur devant un centaure et une femme

Pablo Picasso
Le Repose du sculpteur devant un centaure et une femme
etching
March 31, 1933

An original hand-signed Pablo Picasso etching.

March 31, 1933

Original etching printed in black ink on Montval laid paper bearing the “Picasso” watermark.

Hand-signed in pencil in the margin lower right Picasso, also inscribed with the date in the plate (in reverse) upper right.

A superb impression of Baer’s only state, printed after the steelfacing of the plate, from the edition of 260 on this paper (there were a further 50 impressions printed on Montval laid paper with wider margins and the “Montgolfier” watermark, and three impressions printed on parchment).  Plate 58 of 100 from the Suite Vollard.  Published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1939; printed by Roger Lacourière, Paris. 

Catalog: Bloch 167; Baer 320.B.d.