Le Carmen des Carmen
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish (active France), 1881-1973)
Publisher: Éditeurs Français Réunis, Paris, 1964
Printer: aquatints and drypoint: Lacourière-Frélaut and Aldo Crommelynk, [Paris]; lithograph: Mourlot Frères, [Paris]; color reproductions:
Author: Prosper Mérimée (French, 1803-1870)
Date: 1964
Dimensions:
Box: H: 15 in. (381 mm); W: 11 1/8 in. (283 mm); Depth: 2 3/8 in. (61 mm).
Book: H: 14 5/16 in. (363 mm); W: 10 5/8 in. (270 mm); Depth: 1 7/8 in. (48 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 14 in. (356 mm); W:10 3/8 in. (264 mm).
Medium: Original prints: 3 aquatints, 1 drypoint and 1 color transfer lithograph.
Reproductions: collotypes of brush drawings, some with pochoir coloring.
Text: photolithography.
Paper: Arches cream wove paper.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss in honor of Barbara K. Sutherland
Object number: 1984.938
Label Text:Carmen was originally published in 1949 (see no. 25). In December 1957, Picasso adorned a copy of Carmen with drawings on the margins and blank pages in order to enhance the value of that copy of the book, which was to be sold in 1958 for the benefit oft he National Committee of Writers. Several years later a decision was made to publish a facsimile edition of his decorated copy of CARMEN. To accompany this new CARMEN, Picasso made a drypoint of a picador (1960), a lithograph of a torero and Spanish woman wearing a mantilla, and 4 aquatints (the fourth being reserved for the deluxe edition).
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