PICASSO, Pablo
 
Four Bathers; fine heliogravure printed for the renowned Chroniques du Jour, Paris in 1930.
 
Description
 
First edition, from a total edition limited to 1,250 numbered copies of the suite. A sharp, deep-toned monochrome plate, printed via heliogravure on heavy vélin paper stock. The production of these black and white plates was overseen by the avant-garde publisher Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, using a transfer method to faithfully preserve the charcoal textures of Picasso’s original 1923 Neoclassical drawings.
Paper bright and clean throughout.
Framed and glazed, contemporary frame with git face and black edges, sheet mounted over black.
Sheet, 27.8x22.5cm; external, 42.2x32.3cm.