Mar 09, 2010 - Sale 2206

Sale 2206 - Lot 500

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
PABLO PICASSO
La Sauterelle.

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 5 known proofs, 2 of which are now in museum collections). Signed in blue crayon, lower right. A brilliant, richly-inked impression with crisp plate edges. Bloch 358; Baer 605 IV A.