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PABLO PICASSO Femme au fauteuil II: Dora Maar.
Aquatint, scraper, burin and drypoint on Montval laid paper, 1939. 300x238 mm; 11 3/4x9 1/4 inches, full margins. One of only a few trial proofs printed in 1942. Signed, dedicated "pour Frélaut" and dated "Paris le 28 Avril 1942" in pencil, lower right. Picasso watermark. A superb impression.
Although Baer indicates a 1942 printing of 59 impressions which were neither signed nor numbered, this is nevertheless an extremely scarce print. Bloch 318; Baer 649 II B a.
