PABLO PICASSO (1881 -1973) Nature morte aux poires et au pichet

signed in pencil ‘Picasso’ (lower right), numbered in pencil ‘2/300’ (lower left); dry stamp of the publisher ‘Atelier Crommelynck, Paris Editeur’ (lower left); dedicated in pen ‘A Marc et Françoise avec l'affection de Landa Crommelynck’ (on the reverse) etching and aquatint in colours on Arches wove paper with watermark edition 2/300, published by Atelier Crommelynck after the painting by Pablo Picasso ‘Still Life with Pears and Pitcher’, 1936 32.5 x 43.6 cm (image), 50.5 x 66.1 cm (sheet) executed in 1960 Provenance: Collection of Landa Crommelynck, widow of Aldo Crommelynck (Born in Monaco in 1931 – 2008), Belgian master printmaker who collaborated with Picasso and many important European and American artists of the 20th century; Private collection, South of France