Non Vouloir
Picasso. Hugnet, Georges
Paris. Editions Jeanne Bucher. 1942
A beautiful édition de tête copy of Hugnet's Non Vouloir with a presentation from Hugnet,Picasso's frontispiece engraving and a suite of the plates in four colours.
From the edition limited to 426 copies, with this one of 20 édition de tête examples on vergé d'Arches teinté, signed and numbered by Hugnet in red ink and signed by Picasso in 'crayon arlequin' with Picasso's engraved frontispiece etching, the suite of plates each in four colours and the superimposition plate.
Hugnet's presentation is in scarlet ink to the half-title: 'à Monsieur Jean Masurel / Bien amicalement / Georges Hugnet / 15 Juin 1942' and continues beneath the printed half-title 'Non Vouloir' with the three stanzas from page 37: 'L'eau qui ne ferme jamais les yeux / Passe d'un rire à l'autre. / Les pas les pierres le seuil / Font le tour de la liberté. / Le jour ô fantôme de midi / Où le vent ouvrira toutes les fenêtres.'
Jean Masurel (1908 - 1991) was a French textile manufacturer and collector who it is suggested bought his first Léger in 1920. Masurel had inherited a large collection of proto-Cubist work is well as Modiglianis and Légers from his maternal uncle which provided a foundation for his own collection. In 1979 Masurel's collection formed the basis for the LaM (Lille Métropole - Musée d'Art Moderne, d'Art Contemporain et d'Art Brut) at Villeneuve-d'Ascq.
Picasso's engraved frontispiece and the suite of zincographs was issued only with the édition de tête and a further six 'exemplaires d'auteur', also printed on vergé d'Arches teinté. The 'superposition' is composed of all of the zincographs in all of the colours printed on a single sheet.
'Les illustrations ont été gravées au burin par Pablo Picasso de manière à être imprimées dans le texte par les procédés typographiques courants; l'eau-forte, destiné aux seuls exemplaires sur vergé d'arches, a été tirée sur les presses de Roger Lacourière, maitre-imprimeur, à Paris.' (From the justification).
'Picasso made four illustrations for this collection of poems. With engraving, he reworked the plates made from four wash drawings: Portrait de Dora Maar (p. 21); Danseuse I (p. 35); Danseuse II (p. 49); Femme assise (p. 65) ... The suite accompanying the de luxe copies of the book contains impressions of each of the zincographs printed in red, blue, yellow and green as well as a superimposition, on the same leaf, of Femme assise in yellow, Danseuse I in red, Danseuse II in blue, and Portrait de Dora Maar in black ... In the etching used as frontispiece we again see the face of Dora Maar; her expression is stern, and her staring eyes seem to be without pupils ... '. (Cramer).
[Cramer 36; Bloch 360 (for the etching); Baer 721 - 724 and note pp. 331 - 332 for the 'superposition'].
From the edition limited to 426 copies, with this one of 20 édition de tête examples on vergé d'Arches teinté, signed and numbered by Hugnet in red ink and signed by Picasso in 'crayon arlequin' with Picasso's engraved frontispiece etching, the suite of plates each in four colours and the superimposition plate.
Hugnet's presentation is in scarlet ink to the half-title: 'à Monsieur Jean Masurel / Bien amicalement / Georges Hugnet / 15 Juin 1942' and continues beneath the printed half-title 'Non Vouloir' with the three stanzas from page 37: 'L'eau qui ne ferme jamais les yeux / Passe d'un rire à l'autre. / Les pas les pierres le seuil / Font le tour de la liberté. / Le jour ô fantôme de midi / Où le vent ouvrira toutes les fenêtres.'
Jean Masurel (1908 - 1991) was a French textile manufacturer and collector who it is suggested bought his first Léger in 1920. Masurel had inherited a large collection of proto-Cubist work is well as Modiglianis and Légers from his maternal uncle which provided a foundation for his own collection. In 1979 Masurel's collection formed the basis for the LaM (Lille Métropole - Musée d'Art Moderne, d'Art Contemporain et d'Art Brut) at Villeneuve-d'Ascq.
Picasso's engraved frontispiece and the suite of zincographs was issued only with the édition de tête and a further six 'exemplaires d'auteur', also printed on vergé d'Arches teinté. The 'superposition' is composed of all of the zincographs in all of the colours printed on a single sheet.
'Les illustrations ont été gravées au burin par Pablo Picasso de manière à être imprimées dans le texte par les procédés typographiques courants; l'eau-forte, destiné aux seuls exemplaires sur vergé d'arches, a été tirée sur les presses de Roger Lacourière, maitre-imprimeur, à Paris.' (From the justification).
'Picasso made four illustrations for this collection of poems. With engraving, he reworked the plates made from four wash drawings: Portrait de Dora Maar (p. 21); Danseuse I (p. 35); Danseuse II (p. 49); Femme assise (p. 65) ... The suite accompanying the de luxe copies of the book contains impressions of each of the zincographs printed in red, blue, yellow and green as well as a superimposition, on the same leaf, of Femme assise in yellow, Danseuse I in red, Danseuse II in blue, and Portrait de Dora Maar in black ... In the etching used as frontispiece we again see the face of Dora Maar; her expression is stern, and her staring eyes seem to be without pupils ... '. (Cramer).
[Cramer 36; Bloch 360 (for the etching); Baer 721 - 724 and note pp. 331 - 332 for the 'superposition'].
[58 leaves including blanks and suite; pp. 76, (i)]. 8vo. (192 x 148 mm). Half-title with Hugnet's presentation in scarlet ink and 'Du Même Auteur' verso, printed title in red and black, Picasso's original engraving as frontispiece, leaf with dedication 'A Paul Eluard' and Hugnet's verse illustrated with four monochrome zincographs with engraving, all by Picasso, final leaf with justification and achevé d'imprimer, together with the additional suite of zincographs, each printed in red, blue, yellow and green, and the additional superimposition zincograph (see below). Full milk chocolate polished calf by F[rançois]. Brindeau with his signature gilt, sky blue polished calf doublures, matching brushed suede guardleaves, original publisher's printed wrappers with titles to front cover in red and black, backstrip with titles in black preserved, a.e.g., matching calf-backed suede-lined cloth board chemise with gilt title to spine and matching cloth slipcase.
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