Nature morte aux poires et au pichet (Still Life with Pears and Pitcher). 1960.
Etching and aquatint in colors with varborundum after an oil painting.
Signed and numbered. Dated "14 12 XXXVI" in template. From an edition of 300 copies. On wove paper by Arches (with watermark). 32.2 x 43.5 cm (12.6 x 17.1 in). Sheet: 50,3 x 65,5 cm (19,6 x 25,7 in).
A painting from 1936 served as model. Published by Atelier Crommelynck, Paris (with blindstamp).
As of 1949 Aldo Crommelynck (1931-2008) was among Pablo Picasso's preferred printers in Paris. In the early 1960s he opened a studio in Mougins in order to work near Picasso. [EH].