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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Japan

Pablo Picasso

La suite de Saltimbanques

Estimate

180,000 - 220,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

La suite des Saltimbanques


the rare complete suite, comprising 15 etchings and drypoints on Van Gelder wove paper, each framed

smallest sheets (approx.): 330 by 505 mm. 13 by 19⅞ in.

largest sheets (approx.): 650 by 505 mm. 25⅞ by 20 in.

Executed in 1904-05, this set is from the edition of 250 (there is also an edition of 27 or 29 on Japan paper), printed by Louis Fort, published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1913.

(15 prints)

With Tamada Projects Corporation, Tokyo

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1996

Georges Bloch, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié 1904-1967, Bern, 1968, vol. 1, pp. 20-23, nos. 1-15 (other examples illustrated).


Brigitte Baer, Picasso Peintre-Graveur, Bern, 1986, vol. 1, pp. 18-45, nos. 2-7, 9-15, 17-18 (other examples illustrated).

La suite des Saltimbanques comprises:


Le Repas frugal (B. 1; Ba. 2)

Tête de Femme (B. 2; Ba. 3)

Les Pauvres (B. 3; Ba. 4)

Buste d'Homme (B. 4; Ba. 5)

Les Deux Saltimbanques (B. 5; Ba. 6)

Tête de Femme, de Profil (B. 6; Ba. 7)

Les Saltimbanques (B. 7; Ba. 9)

L'Abreuvoir (B. 8; Ba. 10)

Au Cirque (B. 9; Ba. 11)

Le Saltimbanque au Repos (B. 10; Ba. 12)

La Famille de Saltimbanques au Macaque (B. 11; Ba. 13)

Le Bain (B. 12; Ba. 14)

La Toilette de la Mère (B. 13; Ba. 15)

Salomé (B. 14; Ba. 17)

La Danse (B. 15; Ba. 18)