Scheler, Lucien. Sillage intangible. (Paris: Iliazd, 1958)

Unbound as issued (9 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.; 235 x 200 mm, size variable, uncut).  One drypoint etching by Pablo Picasso; very minor browning on margins of a few leaves.  Fibrous brown wrappers covered with vellum, front cover lettered in black.  Original cardboard mailing case.



Copy 6 of 50 copies on vieux japon, signed in pencil by Scheler and Picasso.  Silage intangible is a memorial tribute to Paul Éluard.  The portrait of the poet is "one of Picasso's late, freely engraved portraits"  (Artist & the Book). 

Artist & the Book 242; BBI 184; Cramer Picasso 95

Unbound as issued (9 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.; 235 x 200 mm, size variable, uncut). One drypoint etching by Pablo Picasso; very minor browning on margins of a few leaves. Fibrous brown wrappers covered with vellum, front cover lettered in black. Original catrdboard mailing case.
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