Nude, Model, Sculpture, Head
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Sculpteurs, Model et Sculpture, etching, signed in pencil, 1933, from the Suite Vollard (Bloch 149, Baer 300), total edition of 310. In very good condition, with only the slightest trace of discoloration in the margins and margin edges, archival matting. With wide margins, 7 1/2 x 10 3/8, the sheet 13 3/8 x 17 5/8 inches.
A fine, delicately printed, clear impression, on laid paper with the Vollard watermark.
About half of the 100 prints in the Vollard Suite series – 46- are focused on the artist and his studio. Perhaps the most fascinating are those in which Picasso uses a spare, neo-classical idiom to portray models and the artist, together with the modernist sculpture that the artist has created – as in this etching.