Du Cubisme

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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Du Cubisme
the complete book, comprising title, text and set of eleven drypoints with aquatint on Lana paper, loose (as issued), with original end papers and paper wrapper, stamp-numbered 333 on the justification.
Overall: 10 x 8 ½ in. (25.4 x 21.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1907-1947. From the edition of four hundred and thirty-five. The book published by La Compagnie Francaise des Arts Graphiques, Paris, in 1947.

Literature

G. Bloch, Pablo Picasso: Catalogue of the printed graphic work 1904-1967, Bern, 1968, vol. 1, pp. 26-27, no. 29 (another example from the edition illustrated in black and white).
B. Baer and B. Geiser, Picasso, Peintre-Graveur: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié et des monotypes 1899-1931, Bern, 1990, vol. I, pp. 85-86, no. 39 (another example from the edition illustrated in black and white).

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art; Santa Barbara, University Art Museum, University of California and The Toledo Museum of Art, The Cubist Print, October 1981-June 1982, pp. 196-197, no. 140 (140d, 140e 140k, and 140j illustrated).

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Lot Essay

Including: PABLO PICASSO “L’homme au chapeau, 1914 – Eau-forte originale. B. G. 42.”; A. DERAIN “Eau-forte et burin”; G. BRAQUE “Aquatinte et burin”; JEAN METZINGER “Pointe sèche”; MARIE LAURENCIN “eau-forte”; ALBERT GLEIZES “Pointe sèche”; F. LEGER “Aquatinte et burin”; JUAN GRIS; F. PICABIA “Pointe sèche”; JACQUES VILLON “Eau-forte”; MARCEL DUCHAMP “Eau-forte”

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