Tête Homme au Maillot Rayé

Pablo Picasso
Tête Homme au Maillot Rayé
etching
1964

An original hand-signed Pablo Picasso etching.

1964

Original softground etching printed à la poupée in colors on heavy hand-made Auvergne laid paper bearing the “Richard de Bas” watermark.

Hand-signed in pencil in the margin lower right Picasso, dated in the plate (in reverse) upper right “19.8.64 I”.

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 addition épreuves d’artiste, for an overall edition of 65). Published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, 1965; printed by Pennequin for Atelier Crommelynck, Paris.

Catalog: Bloch 1164; Baer 1164.B.b.1.