THE ONLY RECORDED CANCELATION PROOF OF ONE OF PICASSO'S EARLIEST PRINTS. This is not only his most amusing early print, it is also his first erotic print and his first print anchored in the realm of folklore and myth.
From the "Saltimbanques Suite", a set of etchings depicting circus performers and other marginal characters, executed during the first years of the 20th century and published by Ambroise Vollard in 1913.
The plate was canceled in 1913, just after Vollard's edition had been printed. In her catalogue raisonné of Picasso's prints, Baer speculates that some impressions might have been printed from the canceled plate, but she never saw one or could even confirm their existence.
This impression, logically enough, comes from the collection of Henri M. Petiet, who had bought Vollard's estate.
Printed on fine Van Gelder wove paper, the same paper used for editioning all of the prints of the "Saltimbanques Suite".
With huge margins.
In perfect condition.
