Lot 125
  • 125

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Les deux saltimbanques (B. 5; Ba. 6)
  • etching
  • plate: 122 by 91mm 4 7/8 by 3 5/8 in
  • sheet: 512 by 330mm 20 1/8 by 13in
Drypoint, 1905, from la suite des Saltimbanques, from the edition of 250 (there were also 27 or 29 impressions on Japan paper), on Van Gelder Zonen wove paper, printed by Louis Fort, published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1913

Condition

With full margins (a deckle at three sides), generally in good condition apart from mottled foxing in the margins, other occasional minute fox marks (one in the image, only visible upon close inspection), slight inconsistencies in the paper tone, a few minute white accretions in the margins, unframed.
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