PABLO PICASSO Deux Buveurs Catalans. Etching, 1934. 234x295 mm; 9 1/4x11 5/8 inches,...
PABLO PICASSO
Deux Buveurs Catalans.
Etching, 1934. 234x295 mm; 9 1/4x11 5/8 inches, wide margins. Edition of 260. Signed in pencil, lower right. Picasso watermark. Printed by Lacourière, Paris. Published by Vollard, Paris. A superb, richly-inked impression with very strong contrasts.
In this iconic etching from the Suite Vollard, Picasso contrasts two Catalan fishermen, one young and naïve and etched only in outline, the other old and gnarled and expressed through the build up of closely knit lives, in discussion over drinks at a local tavern. Bloch 228; Gesier 442....
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PABLO PICASSO
Deux Buveurs Catalans.
Etching, 1934. 234x295 mm; 9 1/4x11 5/8 inches, wide margins. Edition of 260. Signed in pencil, lower right. Picasso watermark. Printed by Lacourière, Paris. Published by Vollard, Paris. A superb, richly-inked impression with very strong contrasts.
In this iconic etching from the Suite Vollard, Picasso contrasts two Catalan fishermen, one young and naïve and etched only in outline, the other old and gnarled and expressed through the build up of closely knit lives, in discussion over drinks at a local tavern. Bloch 228; Gesier 442....