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Price: US$45000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paris, Éditions de l'atelier Crommelynck, 1971. La tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, known as La Celestina, novel attributed to Fernando de Rojas published in 1499, illustrated by Picasso with 66 etchings with aquatints, dated in plate, between April 11 and August 19 1968, unsigned. The etchings done for la Celestine are part of the 347 series, Picasso worked to the etchings almost daily with Aldo and Pietro Crommelynck, at their atelier in Mougins, using different techniques. After the impressions were pulled, 66 etchings were chosen by Picasso to illustrate La Celestine. The character of La Celestine was first portrayed by Picasso on a painting in 1903. Limited numbered editions in 400 copies on Richard de Bas laid paper, watermarked La Celestine. Copy n 48 signed on justification page by Picasso in pencil. Bound in parchment board, protective jacket and slipcase. Ref: Cramer 149. Complete and in very good condition.
Seller: Marninart, Inc (ABAA - ILAB), Reston, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$51693.78 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, number 36 of 350 copies signed by the artist. La Celestina, a major work of Spanish literature first printed in 1499, here translated by Pierre Heugas, was illustrated by Picasso as part of the famous 347 series, for which Picasso etched 347 plates between March to October 1968, all printed by the Crommelynck brothers. Cramer Illustrated Books No. 140; Bloch 1602. Octavo. Original full parchment boards, lettering to front cover in black. Parchment and paper dust jacket, lettering to spine in black. Housed in a parchment covered slipcase. With 66 full page original etchings and aquatints of varying sizes dated between April 11 and August 18 printed on Richard-de-Bas laid paper with La Célestine watermark. A fine copy in a fine slipcase.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom