Sep 23, 2014 - Sale 2357

Sale 2357 - Lot 488

Price Realized: $ 25,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
PABLO PICASSO
Homards et Poissons.

Lithograph on smooth, cream wove paper, 1949. 730x1040 mm; 28 3/4x41 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 50 (Reuße notes 5 artist's proofs and 2 trial proofs). Signed and inscribed "Epreuve d'artiste" in pencil, lower margin. Arches watermark. A superb impression of this large, scarce lithograph.

A similar proof impression of this subject sold at Kornfeld, Bern, June 20, 2002, lot 741. Bloch 582; Mourlot 142; Reuße 441.