SCARCE PROOF BEFORE STEEL FACING AND BEFORE THE BEVEL OF THE PLATE EDGES PABLO PICASSO La Modèle habillé.
Etching on cream laid Montval paper, 1927. 192x277 mm; 75/8x11 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aaside from the edition of 55 and before steel facing and beveling of the plate edges. Vollard watermark. A superb impression of this extremely scarce proof.
Baer cites an unpublished edition of 55 "après l'aciérage . . . ou du moins le rafraîchissement des biseaux."
We have not found another proof impression before steel facing or beveling at auction in the past 20 years. Bloch 79' Baer 120 A b.
