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PABLO PICASSO Deux Buveurs Catalans.
Etching, 1934. 234x295 mm; 9 1/4x11 5/8 inches, full margins. Edition of 260. Signed in pencil, lower right. Picasso watermark. Printed by Lacourière, Paris. Published by Vollard, Paris. A superb, richly-inked impression with strong contrasts.
In this iconic etching from the Suite Vollard, Picasso contrasted two Catalan fishermen having a drink at a tavern, one young and naïve and etched only in outline, the other old and gnarled and expressed through the buildup of closely knit lines. Bloch 228; Gesier 442.
