12/65 R. Etching unsigned on watermarked Rives paper. Plate size: 19x27.5 cm. In 1931 Picasso created a series of illustrations for Balzac's short story Le Chef d'Oeuvre Inconnu. Ambroise Vollard, Paris, Publisher. Printers: Aimé Jourde, Paris (text and graphics); Louis Fort, Paris (etchings); Georges Aubert, Paris (wood engravings). Total edition: 340 copies of which 65 are on imperial Japan, with a suite of etchings on Rives fabric, numbered from 1 to 65; 240 copies on Rives fabric, numbered from 66 to 305; 35 out of print specimens, numbered from I to XXXV.