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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Michel Leiris: balzacs en bas de casse et picassos sans majuscule
the complete portfolio of eight lithographs
1957
on tan Japon appliqué on cream Arches wove paper
with title, text, table of contents, and justification
signed in blue ink on the justification, copy no. 40 from the edition of one hundred (there were also ten proof sets)
printed by Mourlot, published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
the full sheets, with deckle edges
in very good condition
within the original beige linen-covered portfolio with the artist's and title on the spine
Images 22,5 x 16,7 cm. (878 x 658 in.) (and similar)
Sheets 33 x 25 cm. (13 x 10 in.)
Overall 34,2 x 26,3 x 1,5 cm. (1312 x 1038 x 12 in.) (portfolio)
Provenance
Oscar Stern (1882-1961), Stockholm; then by descent; his posthumous sale, Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 30 May 1964, lot 21.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
G. Bloch, Picasso - Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographe 1904-1967, Bern, 1968, vol I, nos. 715-722, p. 163 (another impression ill.).
F. Mourlot, Picasso - Lithographe, Paris, 1970, no. 220 (other impressions ill.).
P. Cramer (ed.), Pablo Picasso - Les livres illustrés, Geneva, 1983, no. 86 (other impressions ill.).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Picasso - Der blinde Minotaurus - Die Sammlung Hegewisch in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, February 1997, pp. 72-73 (ill.) & p. 90.
Oslo, Munch-Museet, Pablo Picasso - Den blinde Minotaurus - grafikk og tegning, November 2002 - February 2003 (no cat.).
Hamburg, Ernst Barlach Haus - Stiftung Hermann F. Reemtsma, Pablo Picasso - Der Stier und das Mädchen - Meisterblätter aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, June - October 2010, no. 38.1-8 (ill.), p. 116.
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