The year 1935 was a tough one for Picasso. His wife discovered that his mistress was pregnant and moved with their son to the south of France. While Picasso considered what to do, he made his great print “La Minotauromachie.”

“La Minotauromachie” shows a minotaur, which the artist often used to represent himself, approaching a young blond girl holding a candle (representing his mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter). Meanwhile, a swollen-breasted female toreador (probably also Marie-Thérèse) is draped over a wounded horse; the minotaur prepares to gore her, or perhaps she is offering herself for him to kill. The image was so personal to Picasso that he didn’t sell the impressions, but gave them away to friends.

A signed impression of “La Minotauromachie” that Picasso gave to the widow of the poet Guillaume Apollinaire was sold last night at the preview for the International Fine Print Dealers Association Fair for a price the dealer, Frederick Mulder, described as “over $3 million” — making it the most expensive print ever sold. Fortunately, for those who didn’t attend the preview, which was a benefit for the Museum of Modern Art, there are many other interesting works in the fair, which is open today through Sunday at the Park Avenue Armory.

Daniela Laube Fine Art is selling for $125,000 a rare trial edition of Edgar Allen Poe’s “Le Corbeau/ The Raven,” with text in English and French (the translation is by Stéphane Mallarmé) and six lithographs by Edouard Manet. One illustration shows the raven looming over the narrator from his perch on top of the bust of Athena. In the final, highly abstracted illustration, the raven has flown away and the chair in which the narrator has been sitting is shown as empty, although the shadows of both the bird and the poet are visible on the floor.

Next door, Ursus Rare Books Ltd. has a woodburytype print of Etienne Carjat’s photographic portrait of the poet Charles Baudelaire (who did the most to popularize Poe in France). The photograph is the most famous image from “La Galerie Contemporaine,” a collection of photographs of all the important artistic and political figures of the day.

Also of historical interest, at C.&J. Goodfriend there is a program, illustrated by Edvard Munch, for an 1896 production in Paris of Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt.” Jane Avril, the red-haired dancer famous from Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters, was in the cast.

There are numerous Mary Cassatts on the floor, including a particularly beautiful and Japanese-influenced “The Lamp” at the Old Print Shop. Hill-Stone has some rare Edgar Degas dancers, as well as a rare 1818 print by Théodore Géricault, “Caisson d’Artilleries” — a propaganda piece honoring the veterans of the Napoleonic Wars.

This year’s fair includes several new editions being shown for the first time. Marlborough Gallery is showing “Potro (Colt)” by the hyperrealist Chilean artist Claudio Bravo, as well as “Kentucky Fried Chicken” by Richard Estes, a 110-color silkscreen print showing a New York streetscape reflected off the hood of a car.

Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl has a new series of six softground etchings by Bruce Nauman, based on 1969 photographs of him, and a set of 13 black-and-white etchings by Richard Serra, called “Paths and Edges,” showing what look like sections of nested ovals, or perhaps a Richard Serra sculpture as viewed from above. A series by Ed Ruscha, called “Cityscapes,” shows a pattern of white rectangles, an allusion to words blacked out in declassified files. In each print, the “redacted” text is shown below — sentences like “Listen If You Ever Tell I’ll Hurt Your Mama Real Bad,” or “I Have Not Forgotten Your Testimony Put Me In Here.”

For those eager for a preview of Frank Gehry’s design for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl also has a set of eight prints by Mr. Gehry, one of which shows a preliminary sketch of the museum. Whether one could actually discern anything in its tangled lines is another matter. Other equally abstract drawings show initial concepts for a chair, and for a house Mr. Gehry plans to build for himself in Venice.

“That’s how Frank starts a building — he draws very loosely,” Ms. Weyl said. “And he and the people who work with him know how to translate that into a three-dimensional form.”

Some of the most pleasingly decorative prints at the fair greet one right inside the entrance, at the booth of Mary Ryan Gallery. A new series of poppies by Donald Sultan jumps off the back wall, with brilliant colors and pop simplicity. Anyone looking for a way to spice up one wall of a modern apartment need go no further.

Ms. Ryan has two lithographs on handmade paper from the series called “Focus” by Lin Tianmiao, a Chinese artist known for her performance art and photography. This series, made from photographs of faces of people close to her, enlarged and out of focus, will go on exhibit at Mary Ryan Gallery in March. MoMA has already purchased several prints from the series for its collection.