Summer Art & Design Auction
Sun, Aug 4, 2024 10:00AM EDT
Lot 1204
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Etching, Minotaur Caressing a Woman, Suite Vollard
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
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| $10,000 | $1,000 |
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Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), Etching on Paper, Edition of 50, Suite Vollard, 1939, Paris: Minotaur Caressing a Woman (Minotaur Caressing Girl. at Right, Flute-Playing Boy and Girl at a Table with Fruits and Pitcher), etching published by Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867-1939) in 1939, with full margins, signed in black on lower right. The Suite Vollard is a set of 100 etchings by Pablo Picasso, rendered in a Neoclassical Style and named for Ambroise Vollard, the art dealer who commissioned them. Picasso worked on the series from the spring of 1933 until sometime in 1937. It took two more years for the printmaker Roger Lacouriere to finish printing the 230 full sets; however, due to Vollard's death in 1939 and the circumstances of World War II, they only came to the art market in the 1950s.Â
Image size is approximately 11.75 inches x 14.5 inches. Paper is approximately 17.5 inches x 13.75 inches.
Signed "Picasso" in graphite on lower right. Paper is slightly wavy with minor darkening on edges. Horizontal yellow streaks across lower half of the print.
