The Magnificent Cuckold (Le cocu magnifique: pièce en trois actes) [drama]
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish (active France), 1881-1973)
Publisher: Éditions de l'atelier Crommelynk, Paris, 1968
Printer: text: Fequet et Baudier, Paris; plates: Atelier Crommelynk, Paris
Author: Fernand Crommelynck (Belgian, 1886-1970)
Date: 1968
Dimensions:
Box: H: 12 5/16 in. (312 mm); W: 16 1/8 in. (410 mm); Depth: 1 5/8 in. (41 mm).
Book: H: 11 7/16 in. (290 mm); W: 15 1/2 in. (394 mm); Depth: 2 1/8 in. (54 mm).
Page: H: 11 in. (280 mm); W: 15 in. (381 mm).
Medium: Original prints: 12 etchings (4 with aquatint and 1 with aquatint and drypoint).
Text: letterpress (typeface: Elzévir Caslon).
Paper: Rives white wove paper.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss in honor of Barbara K. Sutherland
Object number: 1984.943
Label Text:These illustrations, characterized by the somewhat bawdy imagery of Picasso's later years and the inventive use of intaglio techniques, are typical works from the fertile imagination of the octogenarian artist. (Picasso continued to illustrate books until 1972.) The text, a play first presented in 1920, tells of an excessively jealous man who loses his wife.
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