Federico Garcia Lorca and Javier Vilato (illustrator) | Funebre pour Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, Paris, 1950

Federico Garcia Lorca and Javier Vilato (illus.)

Chant Funebre pour Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. 5 gravures de Javier Vilato & texte Espagnol. Paris: Guy Levis Mano, 1950

4to (288 x 192 mm), number 16 of 15 copies (numbered 6–20) signed by the artist and translator with an additional suite of five engravings signed by the artist in pencil, from a total of of 23 copies on chiffon d'Arches, INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR TO GEORGES BLOCH IN APRIL 1960 WITH ADDITIONAL INK AND WASH SKETCHES OF BULLS AND BULL FIGHTERS ON FIVE PAGES (half-title and the four divisional titles to the French text), loose as issued in slipcase

The Spanish artist Javier Vilato was the nephew of Pablo Picasso—his mother was Picasso's sister Lola Ruiz. This book was inscribed to Georges Bloch (1901–1984), the great Picasso collector and art historian, and additionally embellished with fine sketches relating to bullfighting.