?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
PABLO PICASSO Portrait de Dora Maar.
Drypoint on Montval laid paper, 1937. 345x253 mm; 13 5/8x10 inches, full margins. One of only a few proofs before steel-facing (Baer indicates a 1942 printing of 57 impressions after steel-facing). Signed, inscribed "Bon à tirer" and "50" in multi-color crayon, lower margin. Printed by Lacourière, Paris. Picasso watermark. A superb impression of this extremely scarce print.
We have not found another impression at auction, neither before steel-facing nor one of the 57 impressions cited by Baer after steel-facing, in the past 20 years. Bloch 299; Baer 627.
