Nov 03, 2005 - Sale 2055

Sale 2055 - Lot 716

Price Realized: $ 5,060
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
PABLO PICASSO
Le Modèle habillé.

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Baer cites an unpublished edition of 55 "après l'aciérage .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.