La toilette de la mère

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) La toilette de la mère etching and drypoint, 1905, on wove paper, watermark BFK, a fine impression with selectively wiped tone and burr on the woman's hair, a rare proof impression before the steel-facing of the plate, probably printed by Louis Fort, Paris (there were also approximately 12 impressions printed by Auguste Delâtre, 1905), before the edition of 250 after steel facing published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1913 Plate 235 x 177 mm. Sheet 350 x 270 mm.