?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
PABLO PICASSO Buste de Femme de Face.
Sugar-lift aquatint and hand-biting on cream wove paper, 1947. 378x279 mm; 15x11 inches (sheet), full margins. Artist's proof, before steel-facing and without the date inked (Baer cites 3 other proofs on the same paper before steel-facing, including the bon à tirer impression, but all with the date inked), aside from the regular edition of 275. Signed in blue pencil, lower left. Johanot watermark. From Gongora: Vingt Poèmes. A superb, richly-inked impression of this very scarce, early proof.
The bon à tirer impression, also signed in blue pencil, sold at Sotheby's, London, September, 2005, lot 268. Bloch 487; Baer 749 A.
