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| Etching. Signed in the plate “Picasso 18 mai XXXIII” in reverse Also signed in pencil “Picasso” 29.53 x 36,83 cm. The whole sheet. Watermark; Vollard Literature: Bloch 191, Geiser-Baer 350 B.d. |
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| Excellent impression. Small pinhole. The title in Geiser Autoportrait sous trois formes: peintre couronné,sculpteur en buste et minotaure amoureux. One of 250 impressions on laid paper with the watermark of the publisher Vollard. These impressions were only partly signed in pencil by Picasso. This print was part of the so-called Vollard suite. |
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| In 1930 Picasso was commissioned to produce the etchings by the art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard in exchange for paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Cézanne. Picasso worked extensively on the set in the spring of 1933 and completed the suite in 1937. It took a further two years for the printmaker Roger Lacourière to finish printing the 230 full sets, but the death of Vollard in 1939 and the Second World War meant that the sets only started coming onto the art market in the 1950s. | ||||
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