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<p>[QUOTE="David Broom, post: 4272727, member: 19942"]If I came across this in an auction my train of (admittedly very amateurish) thought would be</p><p><br /></p><p>1) It can’t be from the original ‘deluxe’ version because the image is reversed. Add to that it’s on the wrong kind of paper with a wrong blind-stamp.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) To get a reverse image someone must have redone a printing plate with an exact copy of the artwork. Could this have been done with Picasso’s involvement? Unlikely but reference ‘Pour Roby’ so definitely worth researching.</p><p><br /></p><p>3) What other explanation for the re-worked plate? Surely not fraudulent because it would be silly to get it the wrong way round. Maybe then a printmaker trying their hand and purposely doing it the wrong way round to keep it out of the ‘it might just be genuine’ market.</p><p><br /></p><p>4) In which case the signature possibly added later by someone else.</p><p><br /></p><p>Verdict : Unless I could find evidence of a ‘Pour Roby’ possible provenance I’d personally not bid but probably totally wrong. (again stress amateur view).</p><p><br /></p><p>So how much did it sell for?????[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="David Broom, post: 4272727, member: 19942"]If I came across this in an auction my train of (admittedly very amateurish) thought would be 1) It can’t be from the original ‘deluxe’ version because the image is reversed. Add to that it’s on the wrong kind of paper with a wrong blind-stamp. 2) To get a reverse image someone must have redone a printing plate with an exact copy of the artwork. Could this have been done with Picasso’s involvement? Unlikely but reference ‘Pour Roby’ so definitely worth researching. 3) What other explanation for the re-worked plate? Surely not fraudulent because it would be silly to get it the wrong way round. Maybe then a printmaker trying their hand and purposely doing it the wrong way round to keep it out of the ‘it might just be genuine’ market. 4) In which case the signature possibly added later by someone else. Verdict : Unless I could find evidence of a ‘Pour Roby’ possible provenance I’d personally not bid but probably totally wrong. (again stress amateur view). So how much did it sell for?????[/QUOTE]
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