Nov 09, 2009 - Sale 2194

Sale 2194 - Lot 114

Price Realized: $ 18,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
PABLO PICASSO
Le Siège de Jérusalem by Max Jacob.

Bound volume with 3 etchings with drypoint, 1914. 225x155 mm; 9x6 1/8 inches (sheets), full margins.

One of 15 numbered copies on papier ancien du Japon, from a total edition of 106. Signed by both Picasso and Jacob in violet pencil and numbered 4 on the justification page. Printed by Delâtre, Paris. Published by Kahnweiler, Paris. 1/2-dark brown calf and marbled paste board binding.

Superb impressions of these extremely scarce, early prints. We have found only 9 other copies of this seminal Cubist work at auction in the past 20 years. Bloch 25-27; Geiser 35-37.