HESIODE -BRAQUE, GeorgesLivre Rare Book
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19551911Paris, Maeght, 1955. Un volume in-folio en feuilles, couverture illustrée d'une gravure en couleurs à l'aquatinte et carborundum, vernie par l'artiste lui-même, étui-chemise éditeur décoré de collages de papiers de couleur. - 20 EAUX-FORTES ORIGINALES DE GEORGES BRAQUE : 16 gravures hors-texte exécutées en 1932 pour Ambroise Vollard, et 4 gravures réalisées en 1953 : la couverture en 5 couleurs vernie au pinceau par l'artiste, le frontispice en 2 couleurs, la tête de chapitre et le cul-de-lampe. - Tirage à 150 exemplaires numérotés sur Auvergne et signés par l'artiste. Celui-ci le n° 23 signé par Braque. Tirage unique - Conservé en parfait état. - Note historique : En 1931, Braque illustre la Théogonie du poète grec Hésiode (VIIe siècle av. J.-C) pour le marchand, éditeur et passionné de gravure, Ambroise Vollard. Le récit, consacré à la naissance de l’univers et à l’origine des dieux, est considéré comme l’un des grands textes de la mythologie grecque. Entre 1932 et 1935, l’artiste exécute une série de seize eaux-fortes qui seront publiées par Maeght en 1955 : ligne noire imprimée sur fond blanc pour les gravures et, en négatif, ligne blanche découpée sur fond noir pour les plâtres peints et gravés que Braque crée en parallèle. Comme les figures mythologiques et les natures mortes de l’époque, ces œuvres possèdent un style curvilinéaire et propice à la métamorphose. (The Artist and the Book 38). --- ENGLISH DESCRIPTION: GEORGES BRAQUE (1882-1963). THEOGONIA - the complete set of twenty (20) etchings, title paper, text in Greek by Hesiod, justification, and index of plates on Auvergne paper, watermark Montval, 1932-1955, one of the 150 (n. 23), signed in pencil on the the justification, published by Maeght Editeur, Paris, 1955, in mint good condition, loose (as issued), with paper wrappers, within black paper-covered boards and slipcase, with collage design on front and back, title, artist's and author's name on spine. Overall: 18 x 13 7/8 in. (457 x 352 mm.) Condition : near mint, a beautiful copy with the editor decorated slipcase in near mint condition too.
195789530Cannes 1957. Fine. ""The 7th Bull races"" Cannes 13 juin 1957 21 x 27 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Multi-coloured autograph letter from Pablo Picasso to Max Pellequer signed and dated by the author on June 13 1957. The document includes the autograph address of his villa La Californie. 2 pages on one sheet 22 lines in green blue and red pencils on a watermarked sheet. Minor folds. An exceptional account of Pablo Picasso's passion for bullfighting a recurring theme in his art since his very first works painted at the age of eight ""The Little Yellow Picador"" 1899. Pablo Picasso gives Max Pellequer and his wife details regarding a trip to Arles on July 5 6 and 7 1957 to which the artist has invited them along with a handful of friends. With undisguised enthusiasm he announces that he has booked their rooms at the ""Norpinus"" Nord-Pinus and their seats for the bullfight. Only after providing this essential information does the painter mention the opening of his exhibition at the Réatu Museum and the official dinner with Douglas Cooper the great collector and the mayor of Arles Charles Privat: ""Dinner with Cooper & the mayor"". A performance of ""Aïda at the bullring"" is also scheduled during this Arlesian getaway which ends on the 7th with an intriguing ""bull run with the presence of a black king"". In the 1950s Pablo Picasso and Jacqueline Roque are regular visitors to the Arles bullrings. At that time the painter is not discovering the city. Fascinated by Van Gogh's portraits he paints his first Arlésienne in 1912 and his last featuring Jacqueline just after writing this letter in 1958. But it is his love of bullfighting that will ultimately bind the Andalusian to the bullfighting capital of Provence. From his early Barcelona works Scène de corrida and courses de Taureaux presented to Ambroise Vollard in 1901 to the famous and omnipresent theme of the Minotaur Picasso was one of the main promoters of bullfighting in France. In the late 1950s Arles becomes the painter's mecca for his passion immortalised in 1956 by David Douglas Duncan who photographed Pablo in the Arles bullring captivated by the bullfights. This exceptional letter bears witness to the excitement of the artist who at the height of his international fame becomes for the time being a groupie happy to accommodate his friends in the legendary ""Norpinus"" hotel known for hosting toreros after their bullfights. Bullfighting also features in the other major events presented by the artist in the 22 lines of our sheet. He announces the opening of his first exhibition at the Musée Réattu which gives pride of place to the figure of the bull in Picasso's work. Among the paintings on display from July 6 to September 2 1957 38 of the artist's artworks will be exhibited for the first time. Picasso the main lender for this event will ironically be absent from the opening too busy painting portraits of Jacqueline using pigeon feathers. The author continues his letter by proposing a dinner with British collector Douglas ""Cooper"" who along with the Barcelona Museum will also be invited to contribute to the exhibition. The ""mayor"" of Arles Charles Privat is the second personality invited to this dinner. Picasso and Privat who meet for the first time in April 1957 will maintain a fruitful relationship that will conclude in 1971 with the artist's donation of 57 artworks to the Musée Réattu. In the second part of the letter Pablo Picasso adds a performance of Verdi's opera ""Aïda"" to the schedule demonstrating the artist's continued keen interest in operatic works more than 30 years after designing sets for the Ballets Russes. Finally the only possible conclusion for Picasso's letter and stay with his friends is to attend of course one final bullfight whose announcement itself seems like the title of a painting: bullfight with the presence of a black king"". We do not know which African dignitary attended the 1957 bullfight but the pain unknown
15155Paris Editions d'Art Les Heures Claires 1965 in folio (38x29) 1 fort volume broché en faux-feuillets sous couverture rempliée, 220 pages et 5 faux-feuillets non chiffrés, avec 19 planches hors-texte en couleurs et un portrait de A. Warnod en frontispice (phototypie), sous boitage de l'éditeur. Préface de Pierre Brisson. Lithographies de Derain, et Van Dongen (tirées par Lucien Détruit), lithographies de Dufy, Matisse, Chagall, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Cavaillès, Terechkovitch et Carzou. Lithographies de Picasso, et Buffet (tirées par P.-J. Ballon), Lithographies de Miro (tirée par l'atelier Arte), eaux-fortes de Villon et Zadkine (tirée par Manuel Robbe), eau-forte de Braque (tirée par A. et P. Crommelynck). Original etchings by Braque, Jacques Villon, Zadkine. Original woodcuts by Vlaminck, Rouault, Pascin, Utrillo. Original lithographs by Derain, Dufy, Matisse, Van Dongen, Picasso, Chagall (engraved by Sorlier), Dunoyer de Segonzac, Cavaillès, Terechkovitch, Bernard Buffet, Carzou, Miro. Tirage limité à 250 exemplaires numérotés sur grand vélin d'Arches (limited to 250 copies), et quelques exemplaires hors-commerce. Notre exemplaire imprimé sur grand vélin d'Arches est un exemplaire d'artiste, il porte sur la justification la mention imprimée: exemplaire d'artiste. Cet exemplaire est enrichi d'une importante suite de 33 planches de divers états de la décomposition des couleurs de la lithographie de Picasso (sous chemise). Collationné complet. Très bel et rare exemplaire d'artiste ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
1996129566Kornfeld Et Klipstein & Editions Kornfeld. As New. 1996. Hardcover. 3857730269 .CORRESPONDES TO ISBN: 3857730269/ INCLUDES VOLUMES 1 - VII PLUS ADDENDUM - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Works One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Il Ill IV V VI VII 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kornfeld Et Klipstein & Editions Kornfeld hardcover
195048463Paris.: Bordas Editeur. 1950. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers with flaps artist's and author's names in black to front cover and publisher's and details to rear additional vellum jacket with flaps and printed titles to front cover. Small folio. 328 x 258 mm. Half-title printed title with original lithograph illumination copyright verso and the 4 sections of Tzara's text in verse and prose illustrated with 8 full-page original lithographs in black by Picasso 3 leaves with 'Table' and final leaf with justification and achevé d'imprimer verso; also included loose is the additional suite of all of the lithographs on Japon. The édition de tête of Tzara's collection with a suite of Picasso's finger-drawn lithographs on Japon and with the additional vellum jacket.From the edition limited to 350 copies with this one of 30 on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen signed by the author and artist and with the additional suite of the plates on Japon Impérial paper; the 300 copies issued on Arches and the 20 hors commerce copies on Alfa Mousse were initialled by Tzara only.For Tzara's four-section collection the sections are 'Le Temps Détruit' 'Le Déserteur' 'Le Boeuf sur la Langue' and 'Le Poids du Monde' Picasso drew the illustrations directly and spontaneously on the lithographic stone with his finger. Although Tzara had been specific in what illustration he desired the lithographs he produced for the book were ultimately Picasso's own. The illustration for the title does not feature printed text in the suite.'This great poem which is in both verse and prose and which is formed of four parts was written by Tzara between 1946 and 1949. To some degree the poem represents the sum of the poet's experiences . Although Picasso agreed to illustrate the poem he kept putting off the work. He finally got around to it when Mourlot paid him a visit at Vallauris on April 16 1950. This same day he made the cover for the second volume of Picasso Lithographe as well as the 9 lithographs for De Mémoire d'Homme using a somewhat unusual procedure; he dipped his painting finger into the lithographic ink and then drew flora and fauna designs which are at once familiar and strange; he then marked their contours with lithographic chalk.' Patrick Cramer.Cramer 59; Berggruen 35. Bordas Editeur. hardcover
26670Lisle-sur-Sorgue et Alès PAB été 1960. 1 vol. 210 x 260 mm de 23 p. et 5 planches. En feuilles sous couverture imprimée. Édition originale. Illustré de 5 empreintes naturelles composées par Picasso. Tirage unique à 50 exemplaires sur Arches celui-ci justifié à l’encre par l’auteur : « Exemplaire de Picasso R.C. ». Les pierres et le fer qui ont servi aux empreintes ont été trouvés dans les monts du Vaucluse par René Char PAB et Jacques Polge sur le site du massif des « Dentelles de Montmirail » du latin « mons mirabilis » signifiant « mont ou montagne admirable ». Le lieu tient son nom de l'érosion qui a façonné la forme de ces montagnes de telle façon que la roche taillée par le temps semble ciselée comme un ruban dentelé à la silhouette unique. Elles se situent aux premiers abords du Mont Ventoux dans le Vaucluse à une trentaine de kilomètres de Lisle-sur-la-Sorgue où Char résidait. Les Dentelles de Montmirail sont publiées au même moment pendant l'été 1960 ; Picasso séjourne alors à Cannes en compagnie de Jacqueline Roque qu'il allait épouser l'année suivante. Cette dédicace est l'une des premières marques d'une amitié et d'une association naissante que la mort de Braque en 1963 renforceront. Si les premiers échanges datent d'avant-guerre par l'intermédiaire d'Eluard ce n'est qu'à partir de 1958 que Char et Picasso collaboreront. Eluard disparu c'est essentiellement grâce à la persévérance de Pierre André Benoit que les contacts se renouent et que Picasso accepte en marge des grands illustrés qu'il donne chez Broder de collaborer aux minuscules de PAB grâce au procédé des celluloïds : « lorsque PAB rencontre Picasso en 1956 il a 35 ans Picasso en a 75. En mai 1956 pour illustrer un texte de jeunesse de René Crevel compagnon de route des surréalistes que Picasso répond à PAB lui retournant par la poste sans un mot la minuscule plaque de celluloïd gravée d'un visage. Ce sera Nuit. Picasso lui si célèbre et si sollicité pourquoi répond-il finalement à ce jeune éditeur cévenol Peut-être parce que PAB propose des textes de personnes proches de Picasso ou de personnes qui l'ont été : Crevel Tzara René Char. Mais PAB sait aussi le séduire en l'invitant à jouer avec des techniques nouvelles : le celluloïd puis la cartalégraphie. Il interpelle Picasso qui a le goût du défi technique insistant toujours dans ses courriers sur l'aspect ludique « amusant » de ses propositions : « voyez si mon projet vous chante » lui écrit-il le 7 mai 1958 en lui adressant le poème L'Escalier de Flore de René Char. » Picasso et le livre d'artiste Exposition 2018 préface. Char préfacera en 1973 le catalogue de l'exposition Picasso à Avignon qui paraîtra juste après la mort du peintre le 8 avril 1973. C'est au total dix-sept livres que PAB réalise avec Picasso entre 1956 et 1974 ce qui fait de lui l'éditeur avec qui l'artiste a le plus collaboré. Lisle-sur-Sorgue et Alès, PAB, été 1960. 1 vol. (210 x 260 mm) de 23 p. et 5 planches. En feuilles, sous couverture imprimée unknown
196026670L'exemplaire de Pablo Picasso Lisle-sur-Sorgue et Alès, PAB, été 1960. 1 vol. (210 x 260 mm) de 23 p. et 5 planches. En feuilles, sous couverture imprimée. Édition originale. Illustré de 5 empreintes naturelles composées par Picasso. Tirage unique à 50 exemplaires sur Arches, celui-ci justifié à l’encre par l’auteur : « Exemplaire de Picasso R.C. »
23482Paris, éditions du Cercle d'art, 1958. In-folio, 18 pp. 58 pl., cartonnage éditeur illustré, chemise et étui cartonnés (légère insolation et petits frottements).
1066681968 . Etching 1968 on Auvergne Richard-de-Bas wove paper signed in pencil numbered from the edition of 30 printed and published by Atelier Crommelynck Paris 37 x 47.8 cm. 14½ x 18¾ in.<br /> Le Cocu Magnifique is a farcical play written by Belgian dramatist Fernand Crommelynck about a jealous man Bruno who because of this jealously ends the play by losing his wife Stella. Bruno is the kind of man who sees an enemy in the other sex; he seeks to control a woman but he can never obtain this dominance because the female soul eludes him. It is because he cannot bear Stella's love that he will in the end be cuckolded. The play premiered in Paris in December 1920 and in 1968 Picasso produced a series of 12 etchings and aquatints based on the play's text. Picasso and Crommelynck knew each other for many years and for some time Picasso had intended to illustrate the play. Picasso's dramatic and often explicit depiction of Crommelynck's story is well suited to the stark black and white media of aquatint and etching. <br /> B. 1244-1255; BA. 1432-1443; C. BKS 140 1968 unknown
1066751968 . Etching 1968 on Auvergne Richard-de-Bas wove paper signed in pencil numbered from the edition of 30 printed and published by Atelier Crommelynck Paris 37 x 47.8 cm. 14½ x 18¾ in.<br /> Le Cocu Magnifique is a farcical play written by Belgian dramatist Fernand Crommelynck about a jealous man Bruno who because of this jealously ends the play by losing his wife Stella. Bruno is the kind of man who sees an enemy in the other sex; he seeks to control a woman but he can never obtain this dominance because the female soul eludes him. It is because he cannot bear Stella's love that he will in the end be cuckolded. The play premiered in Paris in December 1920 and in 1968 Picasso produced a series of 12 etchings and aquatints based on the play's text. Picasso and Crommelynck knew each other for many years and for some time Picasso had intended to illustrate the play. Picasso's dramatic and often explicit depiction of Crommelynck's story is well suited to the stark black and white media of aquatint and etching. <br /> B. 1244-1255; BA. 1432-1443; C. BKS 140 1968 unknown
1066811968 . Etching and aquatint 1968 on Auvergne Richard-de-Bas wove paper signed in pencil numbered from the edition of 30 printed and published by Atelier Crommelynck Paris 37 x 47.8 cm. 14½ x 18¾ in.<br /> 107 MP22mod Le Cocu Magnifique is a farcical play written by Belgian dramatist Fernand Crommelynck about a jealous man Bruno who because of this jealously ends the play by losing his wife Stella. Bruno is the kind of man who sees an enemy in the other sex; he seeks to control a woman but he can never obtain this dominance because the female soul eludes him. It is because he cannot bear Stella's love that he will in the end be cuckolded. The play premiered in Paris in December 1920 and in 1968 Picasso produced a series of 12 etchings and aquatints based on the play's text. Picasso and Crommelynck knew each other for many years and for some time Picasso had intended to illustrate the play. Picasso's dramatic and often explicit depiction of Crommelynck's story is well suited to the stark black and white media of aquatint and etching. <br /> B. 1244-1255; BA. 1432-1443; C. BKS 140 1968 unknown
1066741968 . Etching 1968 on Auvergne Richard-de-Bas wove paper signed in pencil numbered from the edition of 30 printed and published by Atelier Crommelynck Paris 37 x 47.8 cm. 14½ x 18¾ in.<br /> Le Cocu Magnifique is a farcical play written by Belgian dramatist Fernand Crommelynck about a jealous man Bruno who because of this jealously ends the play by losing his wife Stella. Bruno is the kind of man who sees an enemy in the other sex; he seeks to control a woman but he can never obtain this dominance because the female soul eludes him. It is because he cannot bear Stella's love that he will in the end be cuckolded. The play premiered in Paris in December 1920 and in 1968 Picasso produced a series of 12 etchings and aquatints based on the play's text. Picasso and Crommelynck knew each other for many years and for some time Picasso had intended to illustrate the play. Picasso's dramatic and often explicit depiction of Crommelynck's story is well suited to the stark black and white media of aquatint and etching. <br /> B. 1244-1255; BA. 1432-1443; C. BKS 140 1968 unknown
1066731968 . Etching and aquatint 1968 on Auvergne Richard-de-Bas wove paper signed in pencil numbered from the edition of 30 printed and published by Atelier Crommelynck Paris 37 x 47.8 cm. 14½ x 18¾ in.<br /> Le Cocu Magnifique is a farcical play written by Belgian dramatist Fernand Crommelynck about a jealous man Bruno who because of this jealously ends the play by losing his wife Stella. Bruno is the kind of man who sees an enemy in the other sex; he seeks to control a woman but he can never obtain this dominance because the female soul eludes him. It is because he cannot bear Stella's love that he will in the end be cuckolded. The play premiered in Paris in December 1920 and in 1968 Picasso produced a series of 12 etchings and aquatints based on the play's text. Picasso and Crommelynck knew each other for many years and for some time Picasso had intended to illustrate the play. Picasso's dramatic and often explicit depiction of Crommelynck's story is well suited to the stark black and white media of aquatint and etching. <br /> B. 1244-1255; BA. 1432-1443; C. BKS 140 1968 unknown
1066711968 . Etching 1968 on Auvergne Richard-de-Bas wove paper signed in pencil numbered from the edition of 30 printed and published by Atelier Crommelynck Paris 37 x 47.8 cm. 14½ x 18¾ in.<br /> Le Cocu Magnifique is a farcical play written by Belgian dramatist Fernand Crommelynck about a jealous man Bruno who because of this jealously ends the play by losing his wife Stella. Bruno is the kind of man who sees an enemy in the other sex; he seeks to control a woman but he can never obtain this dominance because the female soul eludes him. It is because he cannot bear Stella's love that he will in the end be cuckolded. The play premiered in Paris in December 1920 and in 1968 Picasso produced a series of 12 etchings and aquatints based on the play's text. Picasso and Crommelynck knew each other for many years and for some time Picasso had intended to illustrate the play. Picasso's dramatic and often explicit depiction of Crommelynck's story is well suited to the stark black and white media of aquatint and etching. <br /> B. 1244-1255; BA. 1432-1443; C. BKS 140 1968 unknown
1066771968 . Etching and aquatint 1968 on Auvergne Richard-de-Bas wove paper signed in pencil numbered from the edition of 30 printed and published by Atelier Crommelynck Paris 37 x 47.8 cm. 14½ x 18¾ in.<br /> Le Cocu Magnifique is a farcical play written by Belgian dramatist Fernand Crommelynck about a jealous man Bruno who because of this jealously ends the play by losing his wife Stella. Bruno is the kind of man who sees an enemy in the other sex; he seeks to control a woman but he can never obtain this dominance because the female soul eludes him. It is because he cannot bear Stella's love that he will in the end be cuckolded. The play premiered in Paris in December 1920 and in 1968 Picasso produced a series of 12 etchings and aquatints based on the play's text. Picasso and Crommelynck knew each other for many years and for some time Picasso had intended to illustrate the play. Picasso's dramatic and often explicit depiction of Crommelynck's story is well suited to the stark black and white media of aquatint and etching. <br /> B. 1244-1255; BA. 1432-1443; C. BKS 140 1968 unknown
1066721968 . Etching 1968 on Auvergne Richard-de-Bas wove paper signed in pencil numbered from the edition of 30 printed and published by Atelier Crommelynck Paris 37 x 47.8 cm. 14½ x 18¾ in.<br /> Le Cocu Magnifique is a farcical play written by Belgian dramatist Fernand Crommelynck about a jealous man Bruno who because of this jealously ends the play by losing his wife Stella. Bruno is the kind of man who sees an enemy in the other sex; he seeks to control a woman but he can never obtain this dominance because the female soul eludes him. It is because he cannot bear Stella's love that he will in the end be cuckolded. The play premiered in Paris in December 1920 and in 1968 Picasso produced a series of 12 etchings and aquatints based on the play's text. Picasso and Crommelynck knew each other for many years and for some time Picasso had intended to illustrate the play. Picasso's dramatic and often explicit depiction of Crommelynck's story is well suited to the stark black and white media of aquatint and etching. <br /> B. 1244-1255; BA. 1432-1443; C. BKS 140 1968 unknown
191878956Paris: Mercure de France 1918. Fine. Mercure de France Paris 1918 14.50 x 23 cm relié First edition a first impression copy numbered in the press. Binding in half brown morocco spine in five compartments gilt date at the foot geometric pattern paper boards and endpapers in the same paper top edge gilt wrappers and spine preserved in perfect condition binding signed by T. Boichot. Apollinaire's second major poetic work with bold graphic innovations and a portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire by Pablo Picasso as frontispiece. Some of the best war poems all languages combined are brought together in this collection alongside experimental works such as Les Fenêtres close to Cubism and La Jolie Rousse which were far ahead of their time Cyril Connolly Cent livres-clés de la littérature moderne n° 32. A beautiful copy on non-brittle paper which is unusual and a rare and surprising handwritten inscription signed by Guillaume Apollinaire: à monsieur le critique littéraire de La Libre Parole hommage de Guill. Apollinaire."" To the literary critic of La Libre Parole tribute by Guill. Apollinaire. Who could be the recipient of this inscription unnamed but addressed to a collaborator of the famous anti-Semitic newspaper founded by Édouard Drumont The ostensibly philo-Semitic position of Guillaume Apollinaire is well-known. In an 1899 letter he boasts to Toussaint Luca that he tried to provoke Henri Rochefort who was reading La Libre Parole by deploying L'Aurore in front of him but as the young Dreyfusard regrets without daring to engage the controversy. In 1902 he publicly marked his fraternity with the Jewish people with a new publication in La Revue blanche Le Passant de Prague"": I love Jews because all Jews suffer everywhere. Then in Alcools he will dedicate a poem to the Hebrew religion: ""La Synagogue"". But it is undoubtedly through his poem Le Juif latin published in L'Hérésiarque et Cie that Apollinaire poetically reveals the essence of his particular link with Judaism: that he shares the condition of eternal stranger the feeling of uprooting and the search for identity. It may therefore seem very surprising that this poet whose only trace of political commitment was in favor of Dreyfus dedicated his work to a La Libre Parole journalist even if he is a literary critic. And in fact La Libre Parole does not contain literary columns! A few months before the poet's death this laconic inscription thus proves to be a formidable and final scoff of poetic impertinence to political intolerance. Mercure de France hardcover
195768709Paris: Louis Broder 1957. Fine. Louis Broder Paris 1957 13.50 x 16.50 cm relié sous chemise et étui Antonin ARTAUD & Pablo PICASSO .Autre chose que de l'enfant beau .Something Other than a Beautiful Child Louis Broder Paris 1957 13.5 x 16.5 cm full box in custom chemise and slipcase First edition printed in 120 numbered copies on Japon paper ours is one of 100 copies numbered in Arabic numerals. Illustrated with an original drypoint in colour by Pablo Picasso printed in Georges Leblanc's workshops in Paris. Handwritten signature of Pablo Picasso on the print details page. Binding in full grey box title and names of the author and illustrator gold-stamped on the spine boards decorated with an abstract and geometric decoration of gilt and black fillets mouse grey box endpapers covers and spine preserved top edge gilt chemise in half mouse grey box marbled paper boards slipcase edged in mouse grey box marbled paper boards contemporary binding signed Desmules. Using a process used the previous year for the illustration of Autre chose by P. A. Benoit the artist pierced the black mould giving the appearance of an empty circle in the engraving. This circle not pressed by the plate forms a white half-sphere in relief a unique and empty eye of a dismembered character very surely inspired by one of Artaud's great drawings from 1946 L'Homme et sa douleur preserved at the Cantini museum in Marseille. Rare and very beautiful copy perfectly set in a decorative binding comprising the only intaglio produced in colour by Picasso to illustrate the book. Louis Broder hardcover
1965138159Paris: Galerie Louise Leiris 1965. Edition of 50. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso numbered lower left. Drypoint etching on Richard de Bas paper. Plate size: 23 x 33 cm. Sheet size: 33 x 45.4 cm. Framed size: 55 x 65.5 cm. A very minor soft crease to upper right corner otherwise in excellent condition. Presented in a hand made white gold leaf frame. Bloch 1202; Baer 1186. unknown
1969155791Paris: Galerie Leiris 1969. Edition of 50. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso numbered lower left. At the age of 86 Picasso created 347 etchings between 16 March - 5 October 1968. This is plate no. 193 from the series. Aquatint scraper and drypoint on wove paper all edges deckled. Image size: 14.8 x 20.8 cm. Sheet size: 28 x 35.3 cm. Framed size: 38.3 x 43 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in a gold leaf frame with conservation acrylic glazing. Bloch 1673; Baer 1689 IV Bb1. unknown
1203761969 . Lithograph in colours 1969 on wove paper with the artist's printed signature as issued numbered from the American edition of 250 marked 'A' Printed by Marcel Salinas New York with his blindstamp verso Published by Harry N. Abrahams inc. New York 65 x 50 cm. 25½ x 19¾ in.<br /> <br /> 1969 unknown
1203841969 . Lithograph in colours 1969 on wove paper with the artist's printed signature as issued numbered from the American edition of 250 marked 'A' Printed by Marcel Salinas New York with his blindstamp verso Published by Harry N. Abrahams inc. New York 65 x 50 cm. 25½ x 19¾ in.<br /> <br /> 1969 unknown
1966112218Cannes 1966. Unpublished and heavily corrected manuscript of Brassai's account of his visit to Picasso A superb unpublished and heavily corrected manuscript in French in which Brassaï recounts his visit to Picasso a long-standing friend at his home near Cannes. Brassaï who photographed much of Picasso's work in the 1940s had published Conversations with Picasso in 1964 in which he created an intimate portrait of Picasso covering their friendship and artistic collaboration and recording each of their meetings with minute detail. Picasso said of the volume "Read this book if you want to understand me". This account is written in a similar style and during the course of the afternoon Picasso speaks about his nostalgia for his old studios his health his enthusiasm for the recently invented felt-tip pen his opinion of his own writings his relationship with his wife Jacqueline and his views on feminism. Though unmarked as such it is from the collection of Brassaï's close friend and colleague photographer Stefan Lorant who founded Picture Post the pioneering pictorial magazine. Quarto 285 x 233. 20 typed sheets in French rectos only legibly hand-corrected throughout by Brassai in black ink. Housed in a black cloth album with each sheet in a separate clear plastic file. In excellent condition the final page a little creased and with minor loss to right-hand side affecting one letter. Overall fresh and clean. hardcover
195789530Cannes 13 juin 1957 | 21 x 27 cm | 2 pages sur un feuillet
1962D17822Monaco: Éditions du Rocher 1962. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by Cocteau for editor Jean Denoël with a drawing at the front and signed by Picasso and Cocteau on the colophon. Among a number of copies on Rives reserved for collaborators from a total edition of 255. 24 original lithographs 11 of them hors-texte including the front wrapper and 2 double-page by Picasso printed in black by Mourlot. Folio contents loose as issued in original wrappers with cut-out design revealing title on front cover; 1/4 calf gilt-backed chemise and board slipcase split. Contents are fine. Prospectus laid in. "On the occasion of Picasso's 80th birthday Pierre Bertrand who was Cocteau's publisher assembled eleven of the poet's texts which reflected his friendship with Picasso. The latter illustrated these texts with 24 lithographs some of which are drawn in Cocteau-esque style "---Cramer 117; Monod 292; Bloch 1037-1060. <br/><br/> Éditions du Rocher paperback
