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194 - PICASSO, Pablo Original etchings for Honoré de Balzac’s *The Unknown Masterpiece*. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1931. Title page with colophon on the reverse, printed no. 77, 12 (of 13) etchings, approx. 19.4 x 27.7 cm (plate), approx. 38.4 x 49.9 cm (sheet), wove paper (Van Gelder), signed in brown ink, numbered 77/99 (title browned at the edge, some thumbing, etchings some (slightly) browned, a few edges browned or frayed, 1 slightly foxed, 1 small ink stain (same ink as signature)). Illustrated published folder (watermark, small tears on edges, inner folder slightly foxed, small tears on folds). Famous series commissioned by Ambroise Vollard, who published 340 copies in book form (Bloch, vol. 19; Johnson, 119) and only 99 copies of this separate suite of loose etchings. A beautiful and rare collection, all signed by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). Subjects include 11 (of 12) scenes of the artist at work, female nudes, and bulls and horses (excluding no. 4, “Painter and Knitting Model”), and a nice overview of these scenes as the 13th etching. Ref. Bloch 82–94. - U. E. Johnson, *Ambroise Vollard, Publisher*, New York, 1944, pp. 110–111, 117.
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PICASSO, Pablo Original etchings for Honoré de Balzac’s *The Unknown Masterpiece*. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1931. Title page with colophon on the reverse, printed no. 77, 12 (of 13) etchings, approx. 19.4 x 27.7 cm (plate), approx. 38.4 x 49.9 cm (sheet), wove paper (Van Gelder), signed in brown ink, numbered 77/99 (title browned at the edge, some thumbing, etchings some (slightly) browned, a few edges browned or frayed, 1 slightly foxed, 1 small ink stain (same ink as signature)). Illustrated published folder (watermark, small tears on edges, inner folder slightly foxed, small tears on folds). Famous series commissioned by Ambroise Vollard, who published 340 copies in book form (Bloch, vol. 19; Johnson, 119) and only 99 copies of this separate suite of loose etchings. A beautiful and rare collection, all signed by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). Subjects include 11 (of 12) scenes of the artist at work, female nudes, and bulls and horses (excluding no. 4, “Painter and Knitting Model”), and a nice overview of these scenes as the 13th etching. Ref. Bloch 82–94. - U. E. Johnson, *Ambroise Vollard, Publisher*, New York, 1944, pp. 110–111, 117.
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