Pablo Picasso
Les Pauvres
1905
Etching on wove paper with watermark "VAN GELDER ZONEN"
Verso with round collector's stamp "GBL" (not recorded by Lugt). After the steel-facing of the plate in 1913 Ambroise Vollard commissioned an edition of presumably 29 proofs on Japan and 250 proofs on wove paper, most of which were destroyed due to notable oxidation traces in the print.
One of 250 proofs on this paper.
Sizes: 23.5 x 17.8 cm (51 x 32.8 cm)
Bibliogarphy: Bloch 3, Baer 2
This piece is number 3 in the complete graphic works of Picasso, part of his first Serie who inspire the blue period, the most sensible and romantic oh the artist, Printed in 1913 by Vollard
