May 01, 2008 - Sale 2144

Sale 2144 - Lot 527

Price Realized: $ 43,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
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 and inscibed "Epreuve d'assai d'apres Picasso" in pencil, lower margin. Etched by Jacques Villon. Published by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. A superb impession with strong colors. Ginestet/Pouillin 634 (Villon).