Vieux Sculpteur Grec Avec Modele, Vase aux Trois Anemones et Autoportrait Sculpte
(Old Greek Sculptor with Model, Vase with Three Anemones and Self-Portrait Sculpture)
Original etching printed in black ink on Montval laid paper bearing the 'Vollard' watermark.
Platemark: 7 5/8 x 10 1/2 inches Sheet size: 13 3/8 x 17 5/8 inches
April 4, 1933
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Hand signed in pencil in the margin lower right Picasso, also inscribed with the date in the plate (in reverse) upper right.
A fine impression of Geiser's only state, after the steelfacing of the plate, from the edition of 260 printed on this paper (there were a further 50 impressions printed on Montval laid paper with wider margins bearing the Montgolfier watermark, and three impressions printed on parchment). Plate 65 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 full margins. Literature: Hans Bollinger, Picasso's Vollard Suite, Thames and Hudson, London, 1956, no. 65 (ill.); Picasso: Vollard Suite, The Instituto de Credito Oficial, Madrid, 1993, no. 41 (ill.).
Bloch 174; Geiser 327 B.d
