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PABLO PICASSO Le Crapaud.
Etching and aquatint on cream laid Montval paper, 1942. 420x317 mm; 165/8x121/2 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, before steel-facing and beveling of the plate. (Baer cites 5 known proofs, 2 of which are now in museum collections.) Signed in pencil, lower right. Printed by Lacourière, Paris. Published by Martin Fabiani, Paris. From Histoire Naturelle. Pale time stain. A very good, dark impression. Bloch 356; Baer 603.
