Description:
Morte au Soleil, IV (Death in the Sun) or Corrida. Femme torero blessée. III (Wounded Female Bullfighter), plate 13 from La suite Vollard, 1933.
Drypoint, etching and scraper printed with plate tone, on Montval watermark Picasso, with full margins (deckle on three sides), I. 7 3/4 x 10 7/8 in (19.7 x 27.6 cm)
S. 13 3/8 x 17 1/2 in (34 x 44.5 cm).
signed in pencil, from the edition of 260 (there were also 50 on larger paper), published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, printed by Roger Lacourière, 1939, the palest light- and time staining, occasional very pale stains in the margins near the sheet edges, otherwise in very good condition, framed.
PROVENANCE Sotheby’s, Prints, New York, November 5, 1992, lot 335