Etching on cream laid Montval paper, 1927. 192x277 mm; 75/8x11 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, before steel facing and beveling of the plate and aside from the edition of 55. Vollard watermark. A superb impression of this extremely scarce, early 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Baer cites an unpublished edition of 55 "après l'aciérage .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.
