Sep 23, 2014 - Sale 2357

Sale 2357 - Lot 466

Price Realized: $ 23,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 18,000 - $ 22,000
PABLO PICASSO (after)
Les Saltimbanques.

Color etching and aquatint, 1922. 597x425 mm; 23 1/2x16 3/4 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 200. Signed by both Picasso and Villon in pencil, lower margin. Etched and printed by Jacques Villon, Paris. Published by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. A very good, well-inked impession with strong colors.

Based on Picasso's oil Deux Saltimbanques vec un Chien from 1905. Ginestet/Pouillon 634 (Villon).