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Pablo Picasso. 14 Dessins Originaux Gravés sur Cuivres

Picasso, Pablo

Lausanne. Louis Grosclaude. 1943
Louis Grosclaude's portfolio of etchings after Picasso's original drawings.

From the edition limited to 300 copies numbered in ink and signed by the publisher to the justification; each etching is numbered in pencil from the edition of 300.

These prints - or ones that are from the same carnet - were also used to illustrate a volume from the same publisher, 'Gràce et Mouvements', illustrating fourteen of poems by Sappho.

'Ces 14 compositions originales de Pablo Picasso ont été gravées sur cuivre à l'eau-forte par la maison Haefli & Cie, Arts Graphiques, à la Chaux-de-Fonds (Suisse) ... Raymond Haasen, maître taille-doucier les a tirées à la main sur les presses à bras des ateliers Paul Haasen, à Paris ... André Tournon & Cie, à Paris, a imprimé la présente justification.' (From the justification).
[15 unnumbered leaves]. Small folio. (420 x 314 mm). Leaf with title, justification verso and 14 etchings after Picasso printed on large paper, each numbered at lower left in pencil from the edition of 300; sheet size: 405 x 299 mm. Loose ass issued in original publisher's grey cloth-backed grey paper-covered board box, gilt title to spine.
#48790

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