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Georges Hugnet (1906-1974)
La Chevre-Feuille. With six engravings by Pablo Picasso. Paris, Robert J. Godet publisher, 1943. In-4, stitched, with printed cover and sheets
First edition
Illustrated with six Picasso engravings
One of the first 25 prints on Arches vellum, signed by the author and the painter with the set of three engraving colors (yellow, red, and blue) and an original aquatint by Pablo Picasso.
The justification indicates : "the illustrations were etched by Pablo Picasso in order to be printed in the text through common typgraphic means. The etching, meant only for the first prints, os one of six illustrations printed in intaglio on Roger Lacouriere's printing press."
Autograph deidcation : à Max Pellequer
son ami
Georges Hugnet
mars 44
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Picasso
Complete with the Prière d'insérer with fourteen aphorisms by Paul Eluard
(Goeppert & Cramer, Pablo Picasso, catalogue raisonné des livres illustrés, no. 38)
