Pablo Picasso - Modele, tableau et sculpture

Original Etching, Paris, 21st March 1933, dated top right in Roman Numerals, on small Montval fillegree paper, with Picasso signature and Montgolfier watermarks, nicely signed by the artist in pencil

Edition: 260 unnumbered proofs (there was also an edition of 50 with wider margins)

Reference: Bloch, Georges. 1968-1979. Pablo Picasso, catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié, 4 vol. Berne: Kornfeld and Klipstein. (Bloch 151)

Geiser, Bernhard and Brigitte Baer. 1986-1996. Picasso: Peintre-Graveur, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et des monotypes, 7 vols. Berne: Kornfeld. (Baer 303.B.d)

Miguel Orozco: “The complete etchings of Pablo Picasso” Number 417

Note: Plate 43 from the Suite Vollard.
The publication of the hundred etchings created by Picasso between 1930 and 1937 was one of Ambroise Vollard's most impressive undertakings. Vollard was one of the greatest art dealers and publishers of his time and his championship of some of the most celebrated artists of the day deserves the thanks of later generations. His artists, to name but a few, included Cezanne, Renoir, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Rousseau, Rouault and Picasso. Picasso met Vollard in Paris in 1901 and worked with him over an extended period. When the Vollard Suite etchings were first made they were in fact rarely signed (with the exception of some rare proofs made on vellum in editions of 3). Vollard died tragically in a car accident in 1939 and eventually, after the Second World War, most of the Vollard Suite passed into the hands of the famous Dealer Petiet. Petiet knew that Picasso , would never sign anything until he was paid for it and the artist required a substantial fee for putting his signature on the Vollard Suite etchings. Accordingly Petiet gave his buyers the option of buying them either unsigned or, for 10% more on the cost, signed. This meant that Picasso signatures from 1939 until the artists death appear on Vollard Suite etchings. Obviously there is a difference in the artists signature as he aged.

Published by: Ambroise Vollard, Paris in 1939

Printed by: Lacouriere in 1939

Size: 44 x 33.7 cms (paper size) ; 26.7 x 10.3 cms (plate size)

Condition: In very good condition.

Public Collections: Musée Picasso, Paris.