Description: An original Limited Edition IX/XXIX copperplate drawing, male ballet dancers, by Pablo Picasso printed by the House Haefeli and Co., Graphic Arts at La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland). Raymond Haasen, master copperplate printer, hand-pressed the pulls; From the Golden Griffin Gallery, NYC. The edition is limited to 29 numbered copies on rice paper I to XXIX and 300 numbered copies on Arches paper from 1 to 300. Size: mounted image 11⅜” x 15½” on thin, uncoated delicate paper of vegetable fiber called “China” Paper, as seen through window 9” x 13”, print enclosed in medium/heavy stock paper 19½” x 25½”.

(Des 14 dessins originaux de Pablo Picasso ont été graves sur cuivre à l’eau-forte par la Maison Haefeli et Cie, Arts Graphiques, à La Chaux-de-Fonds (Suisse). Raymond Haasen, maître taille-doucier, les a tires à la main sur les presses à bras des ateliers Paul Haasen, à Paris. Le tirage est limité à 300 exemplaires numérotés sur papier d’Arches de 1 à 300 et 29 exemplaires numérotés sur papier de Chine de 1 à XXIX.)

Griffin Gallery/Arts Inc. operated in downtown Manhattan - New York City, New York from the 1950s to the 1970s. In the mid 1940s, Arts, Inc. was established as a publishing house specializing in European scholarly and artistic works. In the 1950s, Arts, Inc., the parent company, expanded to create, first, the Golden Griffin Bookstore, and then the Griffin Gallery, which dealt primarily with contemporary American and European artists. The Golden Griffin was known as the “Continental Bookstore” because of its stock of European titles.