Raymond & Raymond - Advert from 1936

Having paid to access the New Yorker 1936, December 12th I found the following article that establishes Raymond and Raymond as one of the two biggest resellers of prints in New York.

Title: "Art for Christmas - Reproductions and Prints"

Text: "Many art shops and department stores handle reproductions. The biggest selection in New York may be found at Raymond & Raymond, 40 East 52nd Street, and the F.A.R. Gallery, 19 East 61st Street. Both have color reproductions of classic and contemporary paintings from every kind of original medium."

I also found this advert to the right that details that they sold Picasso reproductions.

So, I imagine that these works were originally sold as prints. Raymond and Raymond may not have been the only reseller, but it seems pretty certain that they were one of them.


But many questions remain:

• Is Raymond & Raymond the source of all of these prints? Do you have a print - does it have a stamp or a label?
  
• Is the print documented in any catalog of Raymond and Raymond's prints or is there any other hard documentation, in addition to the stamp on this particular print?
• Were they printed in conjunction to a specific exhibition at the gallery, or where they just reproduced in isolation?
• I do not know this for certain but I imagine that the copyright owner of the original (Picasso himself or the owner of the original?) would have to approve the reproduction of the original painting - was Picasso alive when the prints were made and did Picasso authorize these?

Do you have any information? Do you own a print? Does it have a stamp - smilar or different stamp?