Nov 05, 2013 - Sale 2329

Sale 2329 - Lot 93

Unsold
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
PABLO PICASSO
Tête d'Homme à la Pipe.

Etching printed in black on cream laid paper, 1912. 130x110 mm; 5 1/8x4 3/8 inches, wide margins. Edition of 100. Signed in pencil, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impresson of this early and important Cubist etching, with crisp, inky plate edges and warm plate tone.

Ex-collection Sarah M. Soffel, Pittsburgh, the first woman judicial official in the state of Pennsylvania (sworn into office August 27, 1930); purchased by her from J. J. Gillespie Company, Fine Art Galleries, PIttsburgh, with the original label. Bloch 23; Geiser 32.