Mar 09, 2010 - Sale 2206

Sale 2206 - Lot 498

Price Realized: $ 3,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
PABLO PICASSO
L'Abeille.

Aquatint, grattoir and drypoint on cream laid vergé de Montval, 1936. 417x315 mm; 16 1/2x12 1/2 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, before steel-facing and beveling of the plate and aside from the book edition of 225 (Baer cites 7 proofs of this subject altogether and 3 proofs on this paper). Signed in blue crayon, lower right. A superb impression of this scarce print. Bloch 349; Baer 596 A.