Sale 6063
London
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9 December 1998
Price realised
GBP 4,600
Estimate
Pablo Picasso Jacqueline Roque, Température, Pierre André Benoit, 1960 (Bl. 989-992; C. & G. 104) drypoints, 1960, on Arches, title, text, justification on two pages and set of four hors-texte full page drypoints, of which two forming the cover, fine impressions, signed in pencil by the artist and initialled and inscribed 'H.C. 13/15 PAB' by the publisher on the justification pages, one of fifteen hors commerce copies (there were a further 38 copies in total), the full sheets as published, generally in very good condition, bound in paper cover with a drypoint on the front and back, some rubbing to the spine, within blue glazed vellum covered box with inset viewing window on front, title, artist's and author's names impressed in gilt on spine, a tiny nick to the spine, generally in very good condition(album) overall S. 21 x 40mm.
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This album, one of the smallest ever executed by the artist, is one of his famous minuscules.
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