PABLO PICASSO La Famille de Saltimbanques au Macaque.
Drypoint, 1905. 236x178 mm; 9 3/8x7 inches, full margins. Edition of 250. Printed by Louis Fort, Paris. Published by Vollard, Paris. From the Saltimbanques suite. A very good impression of this scarce print.
Due to the foul-biting that occurred on this plate, evidenced by the dark borders and diagonal lines through the subject, Vollard purportedly had most of the edition destroyed. We have found only 9 other impressions at auction in the past 20 years, compared to an average of 30 impressions of the other prints from the Saltimbanques suite at auction in the past 20 years. Bloch 11; Baer 13.
