PABLO PICASSO Femmes d'Alger, d'après Delacroix, I.
Etching on cream laid paper, 1955. 235x297 mm; 9 1/4x11 3/4 inches, full margins. One of only several proofs (there was no published edition). Signed in red crayon, lower right. Auvergne watermark (Baer cites one proof on Italian antique laid paper and 4 proofs on Arches wove paper). A superb, richly-inked impression of this very scarce etching, with crisp, inky plate edges and warm plate tone.
We have not found another impression at auction in the past 25 years. Bloch 1357; Baer 908.
