Lot 100
  • 100

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
20,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Luis de Gongora y Argote: Vingt Poemes (Cramer Books 51)
  • etchings on paper
  • Overall size: 382 by 282mm; 15 by 11 1/8 in
The book comprising 41 etchings and aquatints, 1948, this copy numbered XV, an hors commerce copy aside from the edition of 250, with title-page, text and justification, on Marais wove paper, watermarked Gongora, loose in green paper-covered boards and slip case, published by Les Grandes Peintres Modernes et le Livre, Paris

Condition

The full sheets, in good fresh condition apart from very pale paper discoloration to the edges of some sheets. The boards and slip-case slightly worn, a few splits at the corners and slight fading to the paper.
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