Hommage à Aldo Crommelynck: De Picasso à Jasper Johns

Pablo Picasso - Fernand Crommelynck

Le cocu magnifique (Bloch 1244-55; Baer 1432-43; Cramer Books 140)

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Lot closes

July 7, 12:06 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 EUR

Starting Bid

5,000 EUR

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Description

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

Le cocu magnifique (Bloch 1244-55; Baer 1432-43; Cramer Books 140)

signed in pencil by the artist and author on the justification page

the complete portfolio, comprising 12 etchings, five with aquatint and one also with drypoint, accompanied by the title page and text by Fernand Crommelynck, on Rives wove paper, loose (as issued), contained in the original vellum wrapper and red leather case

each sheet: approx. 280 x 380 mm. 11⅛ x 15 in.

overall: 310 x 410 x 65 mm. 12¼ x 16¼ x 2¾ in.

Executed in 1968, this set is a printer's proof aside from the edition of two hundred (the first thirty copies included an additional suite of twelve etchings), published by Atelier Crommelynck, Paris.

(12 prints)

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