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Description: Titles and initials in brush-painting (reproduced). With 4 orig. copper engravings by Pablo Picasso, dated on the copper plate. 34 unn. leaves. 4to. Loose quires as issued in wrappers and wooden, ribbon-bound portfolio. First edition. One of 230 copies of a total edition of 250. The brothers Cinto and Ramón Reventós were both friends of Picasso since their youth. After the death of Ramón, his literary work written in Catalan was forgotten within a short time. Picasso much estimated the humourous stories and, when in Paris, he copied by hand the unpublished text from a manuscript held in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Picasso completed his four (not five as written in the colophon!) engravings between January 26 and February 2 of the publishing year. Cramer 44; Bloch 468471. Some browning to the leaves especially fromt the margins. Inside of spine of wrappers foxed, slightly affecting a few quires. Outside of wrappers darkened. A still good copy of this rare and sought-after work.
Seller: Peter Bichsel Fine Books, Zürich, Switzerland
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Condition: Very Good
Description: [Fine printing of Picasso] Limited edition, no. 104 of 250. Four dry point plates by Picasso, with tissue guards. Title engraved in upper cover in red. 28 leaves. Folio, 34 cm. Loose, as issued. Housed in original wooden boards with cloth ties. Title-page, half-titles, l 10b, initials, etc. reproduced from Picasso's lettering. Mornand: Vingt artistes du livre, 306. Cramer Picasso, livres illustres, 44; Bloch 468 471. Catalan. Ramon Reventos was a Catalan writer and, with his brother Conti, long-time friend of Picasso, who wrote one of the first articles published on Picasso's work. When Reventos passed away in 1923, his writings fell into obscurity. Many years later, Picasso would write to Conti's son: "I loved your uncle so much that, when it occurred to me to make him acknowledged here, in Paris, because this boy did not enjoy the success that he deserved, it was during the war [1939-1945]. I often went to the National Library, on foot, with all of the dangers that this entailed, in order to copy these two stories, and I copied them all by hand. Someday I will show you in my own handwriting" (Reventos i Conti Picasso i els Reventos, Barcelona, 1972, p 20). This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Capvespre d'un faune.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.