1952
Medium: Aquatint
Sheet size: 35 3/8 x 25 inches
Frame size: 45 1/8 x 30 7/8 inches
Printer: Lacourière, Paris
Edition size: 50, plus proofs
Catalogue Raisonné: Bloch 695, Baer 891
Marina Picasso Collection stamp on verso
Provenance:
Collection of Marina Picasso, the artist’s granddaughter, with collector’s stamp on verso
Frederick Mulder, London
Collection of Catherine Woodard and Nelson Blitz, Jr., New York
American private collection
Exceedingly rare. One of four recorded proof impressions printed on Arches paper before the aquatint plate was steel-faced. Baer’s catalogue raisonné records six total impressions before steel-facing.
