Sale: 292 / Old Masters and Modern Art/ Marine Art, March 18. 2005 Lot 365

 
Pablo Picasso - La Toilette de la Mère


365
Pablo Picasso
La Toilette de la Mère, 1905.
Etching
Estimate:
€ 5,000 / $ 5,350
Sold:
€ 9,945 / $ 10,641

(incl. surcharge)

La Toilette de la Mère
Etching, 1905 .
Geiser/Baer 15 b 1 (of c). Bloch 13. One of 27 or 29 copies. Print of the steel-faced plate on cream Japon laid paper. 23,5 : 17,5 cm (9,2 : 6,8 in). Sheet: 47,1 x 33 cm (18,5 x 12,9 in).

Print of the edition of Ambroise Vollard from 1913, printed by Louis Fort
In the cut out part of the passe-partout slightly coloured and fractionally barely visible rubbed. Margins with few small traces of creasing and squeezing, slightly unfresh. Left margin with three pale traces of creasing, two of them up to the image (up to ca. 16 cm). Image barely visible wavy, maybe caused by the print. Margins fractionally with small traces of squeezing, caused by the paper. Lower right margin with barely visible thinning. Upper margin verso mounted loosely on backing, recto neglible relief caused by the strips of tape verso. [LB]




365
Pablo Picasso
La Toilette de la Mère, 1905.
Etching
Estimate:
€ 5,000 / $ 5,350
Sold:
€ 9,945 / $ 10,641

(incl. surcharge)