Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Folio. 42.2 x 32 cm. Very good. Sheets loose as issued in original paper covers and board case. One of 450 numbered portfolios on Arches. Each of the 14 lithographs is justified in pencil. Delteil 129-142; Wittrock, 124-137; Adhemar 158-172; Adriani 145-158. The first edition appeared in 1895; the second in 1935 and this, the third in 1978.The lithographs were created with the original lithographic stones engraved by Toulouse-Lautrec for Éditions Joubert in 1895. Much later, the fourteen stone blocks were found in the basement of Joubert Publishing. With the permission of the owner, they were reprinted at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris and published by Editions A.C. Mazo & Cie, in 1978. After this print run, the stones were canceled and deposited at the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bibliothèque Nationale.
Published by Paris: Editions de la Revue Verve, 1954
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Small foliio. 26.5 x 36cm. Original boards with design by Picasso. Tiny tears on spine edge. Slight crack inside the gutter.omplete with the 180 plates, some in color printed by Mourlot and Draeger. Very good. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 23431099. This edition features accompanying words by Rebecca West and the Surrealist writer and poet Michel Leiris.In September 1954, Tériade published a double issue of Verve dedicated to Picasso and illustrating one hundred and eighty drawings by the master, the present work included, which were drawn in Vallauris that winter between 28 November 1953 and 3 February 1954. The rich publication reproduced each work in the exact size and chronological order of the original drawings, so as to preserve the integrity of the suite. Tériade remarked that this collection of drawings was Picasso's "finest, boldest, [and] most poignantly human of all he has produced in the course of his long and brilliant career" (E. Tériade, ed., op. cit., n.p.).At the time Picasso began this series in November 1953, Françoise Gilot had just deserted him, taking their two children with her and leaving him alone as an abandoned man. Deeply hurt, he shut himself away in his vacant villa in Vallauris and frantically produced the 180 drawings which represent ". the diary, not verbal but visual, of a detestable 'season in hell,' a crisis in his personal life which led him to question everything." (ibid.).These works address the central theme of the painter and his model, of a man and a woman, of the subject and the object, handled in a style which is burlesque, comic, grotesque, even caricatured. Some ironically incorporate subjects linked to the world of the circus, the monkey, the acrobat, the clown.The year of this publication, 1954, marked the death of Picasso's artistic rival but great friend Henri Matisse and his passing considerably affected Picasso, who in some way relied on their competition as a catalyst. With this new absence of living rivalry, Picasso was inspired to interact with the artists of the past more than ever, continuously holding conversation with historical masters through his own new, bold interpretations.
Published by Paris: 1961, 1961
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Collotype. Mouinted on a support sheet. 69 x 48.5cm, Hommage à Aristide Maillol exhibition held at the Musée national d'art moderne from June to September 1961 to commemorate the centenary of the sculptor's birth. This was the first major monographic exhibition of Maillol's work since his death in 1944.Since the Hommage à Maillol organized in 1961 at the Musée National d'Art Moderne for the centenary of his birth, no true monographic exhibition has been dedicated to Aristide Maillol at a Parisian museum. The Musée d'Orsay is finally devoting a major retrospective to him: From April 12th to August 21st, 2022 -.
Published by Nice: Musée Massena, 1953
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Lithograph. 54.5 x 47.5cm. Mounted on a support sheet. 69 x 48.5cm, Printed by Mourot.
Published by Paris: E.A.D., 1967, 1967
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Folio. 30 x 42cm. Sheets loose as issued in orignial chemise and silpcase.25 oriignal color lithographs, of which 7 are double page. Numbered edition of 401 copies with 15 copies on Japon nacré. This copy is one of the unnumbered ones printed on Japon nacré reserved for the collaborateurs.Monod no. 10898; OCLC Number9818744.; Giroud 41.,Tiessen III, 68.folio. (25 lithographies en couleurs tirées par Mourlot). P., EAD, 1967, in-folio, 132 p., en feuilles, couv. rempl. illustrée à froid orné d'un médaillon gaufré et doré, emboîtage édit. Tirage limité .
Published by Avignon: Yvonne Zervos., 1970
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Color lithograph. 30 x 21 in. (76.2 x 53.34 cm) Exhibition at the Palais des Papes in Avignon, France, May-October, 1970. Very good.References: Rodrigo, Vol. I, 195, p. 418 Czwiklitzer, 301.