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Pablo Picasso: Trois chevaux au bord de la mer - PICASSO, PABLO 1881 Malaga - 1973 Mougins Title: Trois chevaux au bord de la mer. Date: 1920. Technique: Lithograph on Arches (watermark). Depiction Size: 12,5 x 16,5cm. Sheet Size: 25,5 x 31cm. Notation: Signed and numbered. Number: 1/3. An extremely rare sheet. This is the first of only three prints (+ 3 trial proofs). The stone was destroyed after printing. Provenance: - Georges Bloch Collection (verso collection stamp, not in Lugt) - Bernhard Geiser Collection (verso collection stamp, Lugt 1120b) - Kornfeld und Klipstein, auction 148, 21 June 1973, lot 132 - Private collection Lower Saxony - Villa Grisebach, Berlin, 135th auction, 27 May 2006, lot 304 - Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia Literature: - Bloch, Georges: Pablo Picasso - Tome I, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié 1904-1967, Bern 1971 (2nd ed.), cat. rais. no. 1310, ill. - Geiser, Bernhard/Baer, Brigitte: Picasso - Peintre-Graveur, Tome I, Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié et des monotypes, 1899-1931, Bern 1990, cat. rais. no. 227b, ill. - Rau, Bernd: Ausst. Kat. mit Werkverzeichniserweiterung: Pablo Picasso, Die Lithographien, Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1994, cat. rais. no.7, ill. - Gauss, Ulrike: Pablo Picasso - Die Lithographie, Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster, Die Sammlung Huizinga, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, no. VII, p. 29, ill. - Extremely rare print - Formerly owned by Georges Bloch and Bernhard Geiser - A particularly charming and delicate depiction of the motif of the group of horses, which appears time and again in Picasso's work Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction.   Explanations to the Catalogue Marc Chagall Surrealism Modern Art Prints 1970s Framed Human Print Lithograph Couples