Live Auction 7986Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints, including Property from the Estate of Ernst Beyeler
After Pablo Picasso
Lot 121

After Pablo Picasso

Dix Pochoirs

Closed21 September 2011

Price Realised

GBP 169,250

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After Pablo Picasso
Dix Pochoirs
the rare set of ten pochoirs in colours, circa 1920, on various wove and laid papers, the colours fresh, all signed in pencil, numbered 6/100, published by Editions Galerie Rosenberg, Paris, 1920, with margins, repairs at the edges of a few plates, otherwise generally in good condition, loose in a later portfolio sleeve, with the original gallery label written in ink, apparently in Rosenberg's hand, pasted to the inside cover
S. 325 x 225 mm. (and smaller) (10)

Specialist note

Galerie Paul Rosenberg was located at no. 21, Rue La Boetie. Picasso and his first wife Olga Koklova moved into an apartment in the same street in November 1918 and a year later Rosenberg opened an exhibition of Picasso's watercolours and drawings relating to his stage designs for Diaghilev's production of Le Tricorne. According to the original gallery label which accompanies this lot this rare collection of pochoirs was issued at around this time. Very little is known about the edition although the pochoirs seem to relate to Picasso's set and costume designs for Parade. To our knowledge this is the first grouping of its kind to be offered at auction. Another set of ten is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.