?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
PABLO PICASSO Nature Morte au Compotier.
Drypoint and scraper, 1908-09. 130x110 mm; 5 1/8x4 1/4 inches, wide margins. Edition of 100. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Kahnweiler, Paris. A superb impression of this very scarce, early print, with well-inked burr in the heavily-shaded areas.
This is among the earliest of approximately 20 etchings and drypoints Picasso (1881-1973, see lots 220-248) made between 1908 and 1915, when he and Georges Braque (1882-1963, see lots 266-271, 273-277) were developing Cubism. Braque visited Picasso's studio in late 1907 and viewed his iconic Demoiselles d'Avignon, now at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, which set off several years of fervent artistic experimentation between the two artists. By the winter of 1909-10, both Braque and Picasso had nearby studios in Paris and saw each other on a regular basis. During this time in Montmartre, the artists established the basis for High, or Analytic, Cubism, the most abstract form, among the most significant and extraordinary art movements of the 20th century. Bloch 18; Geiser 22.
