An original Pablo Picasso Etching. 1923 Original zinc plate etching printed in black ink on Arches laid paper. Signed with the artist’s estate stamp signature in black ink in the margin lower right Picasso A richly printed impression of Geiser’s only state printed with the plate corrosion and warm plate tone characteristic of this etching, from the edition of 50, numbered in pencil in the margin lower left (there were 19 additional impressions designated artist’s proofs, for an overall edition of 69 printed in 1961 at Atelier Frélaut, Paris, apart from 4 trial proofs printed on various papers by Frélaut in 1960, apart from one impression printed by Picasso in 1923 and one impression prtinted by Louis Fort in 1930). One of 45 plates comprising the suite La Caisse à Remourds issued by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, 1981. Catalog: Bloch 61; Geiser 107 B.b. Platemark: 7 1/16 x 5 1/16 inches Sheet size: 12 1/16 x 9 5/16 inches
