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Memories of a Collector (Souvenirs d’un collectionneur)
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish (active France), 1881-1973)
Publisher: Alain C. Mazo, Paris, 1959
Printer: lithograph: Mourlot Frères, Paris; text: l’Imprimerie Tournon et Cie, Paris
Author: André Level (French, 1863-1946)
Date: 1959
Dimensions:
Book: H: 11 1/8 in. (283 mm); W: 8 7/8 in. (225 mm); Depth: 1/2 in. (13 mm).
Page: H: 11 in. (280 mm); W: 8 7/8 in. (225 mm).
Medium: Original print: lithograph.
Reproductions: 2 collotype reproductions of holograph letters from Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire.
Text: letterpress.
Paper: Lourmarin cream wove.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss in honor of Barbara K. Sutherland
Object number: 1984.924
Label Text:Level was the author of one of Picass0's first monographs. In SOIUVENIRS D"UN COLLECTIONNEUR, the author, an insatiable collector, recounts his memoirs on art collecting since his youth. In 1904 Level had founded a club of young art-lovers; the club's purpose was to buy paintings, enjoy them for ten years, and then re-sell them. In 1908, the club acquired Picasso's 1905 paiting LA FAMILLE DES SALTIMBANQUES, and this is how Level first became acquainted with the artist. To illustrate this book, Picasso made a lithograph of two circus figures which deliberately recalls the Saltimbanques period of fifty years earlier.
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