Trois Comediens Avec Buste de Marie-Therese
(Three Actors with a Bust of Marie-Therese)
Original drypoint printed in black ink on Montval laid paper bearing the 'Vollard' watermark.
Platemark: 11 x 7 1/8 Sheet size: 17 1/2 x 13 5/16 inches
March 14, 1933
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Hand signed in pencil in the margin lower right Picasso.
A superb, richly printed impression of Geiser's second and final state, showing touches of rich burr, printed after the steelfacing of the plate
From the edition of 260 on this paper (apart from the edition of 50 printed on Montval laid bearing the 'Montgolfier' watermark, three trail proofs also on Montval laid, and three impressions printed on parchment, for an overall edition of 316). Plate 77 of 100 from the suite Vollard. Published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1939; printed by Roger Lacouriere, Paris.
In excellent condition, printed on a sheet with wide margins.
Bloch 145; Geiser 296 II.B.d
