Lot 60 | Pablo Picasso | Prosper Mérimée und Louis Aragon: Le Carmen des Carmen

PICASSO, PABLO
1881 Malaga - 1973 Mougins

Title: Prosper Mérimée und Louis Aragon: Le Carmen des Carmen.
Book "Carmen" von Prosper Mérimée, illustrated. With 5 additional loose prints. 1964. a)
Femme à la Mantille: Carmen. 1949. Aquatint on laid paper. 36 x 26,5cm. Dated in the
plate. As well as numbered. b) Picador et Taureau II. 1949. Aquatint on laid paper. 36 x
26,5cm. Numbered. c) Torero. 1949. Aquatint on laid paper. 36 x 26,5cm. Numbered. d)
Picador au Repos. 1960. Dry point on laid paper. 20 x 15cm (35 x 26,5cm). Dated in the
plate. As well as numbered. e) Torero y Senorita. 1960. Colour lithograpg on laid paper.
34 x 23cm (36 x 26,5cm). Dated in the stone. As well as numbered. Book signed (by Picasso
and Aragon) as well as numbered in the imprint. In original slipcase. Ex. 107/245.
Publisher: Les Éditeurs francais réunis, Paris (publisher).


Condition:
a) b) Slightly discoloured, in the former mat window discoloured. Occasional minimal foxing. Possibly trimmed at the height of ca. 0,4cm. Verso circumferential remains of an old mounting as well as slightly discoloured in spots. c) Slightly discoloured, in the former mat window discoloured. Minimal foxing. Possibly trimmed at the height of ca. 0,4cm. Verso circumferential remains of an old mounting as well as slightly discoloured and minimal foxing. d) Slightly discoloured, in the former mat window discoloured. Occasional minimal foxing. Verso circumferential remains of an old mounting as well as slightly discoloured and minimal foxing. e) Slightly discoloured, in the former mat window discoloured. Verso circumferential remains of an old mounting as well as slightly discoloured in spots. Pages of the book minimally discoloured and occasionally with printing ink bleeding through. Slipcase with minimal rubbings. Otherwise in good condition.

Literature:
- Baer, Brigitte/Geiser, Bernhard: Picasso - Peintre-Graveur, Tome IV, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et des monotypes, 1946-1958, Berne 1988, a) Cat. rais. no. 872 B b; b) 873 B b; c) 874 B b
- Baer, Brigitte/Geiser, Bernhard: Picasso - Peintre-Graveur, Tome V, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et des monotypes, 1959-1965, Berne 1989, c) Cat. rais. no. 1062
- Bloch, Georges: Pablo Picasso - Tome I, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié 1904-1967, Berne 1971 (2nd ed.), d) cat. rais. no. 1005.