Le Chef-d’oeuvre inconnu. (Signed first edition)
by Balzac, Honoré de (Author) and Pablo Picasso (Artist)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1931.. 13 original etchings unbound as issued in a sleeve inside the bound book. One of 65 deluxe copies (no. 10) on Imperial Japan paper, signed by Picasso and Vollard. (Only the deluxe copies on Japan paper were signed on the colophon by the artist and publisher.) This copy without the second suite on Rives. Housed in a custom clamshell case encased throughout in three leathers by the celebrated binder Alexandr Mosalov. References : Cramer, Pablo Picasso, les livres illustrés, n° 20 ;Bloch: 82-94; Livre no, 19. Un des précieux exemplaires sur Japon sans la suite.In-4 (228 x 250 mm). En feuilles, sous chemise rempliée illustrée. Quelques défauts à la couverture (dos et bords inférieurs du premier plat légèrement passés, accident à la coiffe supérieure, quelques taches), coin inférieur du premier feuillet blanc coupé, bords des planches de la suite très légèrement maculées, sans atteinte aux gravures.13 eaux fortes originales hors texte (dont la table des gravures) et 67 dessins gravés sur bois de Pablo Picasso.
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- Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (US)
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- Title
- Le Chef-d’oeuvre inconnu. (Signed first edition)
- Author
- Balzac, Honoré de (Author) and Pablo Picasso (Artist)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1931.
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