Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Lot 45

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

L’homme au chien (Rue Schœlcher)

Closed17 September 2014

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GBP 13,750

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
L’homme au chien (Rue Schœlcher)
etching, 1915, on laid vieux japon paper, signed in red crayon, a very good, tonal and selectively wiped impression from the edition of forty on this paper (there were also sixty impressions on Arches and two on japon nacré), Baer's third, final state, after the steel-facing of the plate, published by Lucien Vollard-Marcel Lecomte, printed by Macquart, Paris, 1947, the full sheet, with deckle edges at left, above and below, very pale mount staining and a few small, unobtrusive stains at the deckle edges, generally in good condition
P. 280 x 219 mm., S. 462 x 295 mm.

Specialist note

Picasso first composed this print in 1915, but must have printed only a few proofs at the time - Baer records only two impressions from this period. He returned to the plate 15 years later, together with the printer Louis Fort, and made a few small changes with the scraper, but again printed only a handful of impressions (one before and a total of four after some changes to the image), before an edition was finally printed in 1947.