Le Taureau (le boeuf)

Date 1936
Technique Aquatint
Price $12,000.00
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Le Taureau (le boeuf)

Aquatint with drypoint and engraving, 1936

Unsigned

Original print commissioned for a special limited edition of Comte de Buffon's natural history.

Total book edition: 263, plus a separate edition of 47, plus proofs

One of nine first state proofs printed by master printer Roger Lacouriere

Plate size: 15 5/8 x 19 1/2 inches

Sheet size: 17 1/4 x 12 7/8 inches

Inventory number verso: 22725 (recorded in the Picasso Archives, Paris)

Provenance: Estate of the Artist

                       Marina Picasso Collection, her oval stamp verso (see photo)

                       Jan Krugier Gallery, New York (her agent)