Gentleman and maja - Pablo Picasso - "La Celestine"

Pablo Picasso "La Celestine"
June 2, 1968 size: 8.5 x 6.0 cm

Aquatint with sugar, scraper and drypoint on copper
Printed on paper "Vergé d'Auvergne Richard de Bas" (with watermark)
Second state (of two)
provenance: private art collection
Illustration n. XXV of the text: Fernando de Rojas, La Celestine, Pablo Picasso, Éditions de l'Atelier
Crommelynck, Paris 1971
This recording two "states" were made (interventions), published in the text Baer (1994). In the second state
(Represented by this release) the bright spot on the woman's skirt was concealed with drypoint.