The Thin Woman (La maigre)
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish (active France), 1881-1973)
Publisher: Le degré quarante et un, Paris, 1952 (Iliazd)
Printer: text: Imprimerie Union, Paris (Jacques Snégaroff, Volf Chalit); drypoints: Atelier Roger Lacourière, Paris (Philippe Moliner, Jac
Author: Adrien de Montluc, comte de, prince de Chabanais (French, died 1646)
Author: Guillaume de Vaux (Adrien de Montluc, comte de Cramail) (French, 1589--1646)
Date: 1952
Dimensions:
Box: H: 175 1/4 in. (4451 mm); W: 10 7/8 in. (277 mm); Depth: 1 in. (26 mm).
Folder: H: 17 1/2 in. (444 mm); W: 10 1/4 in. (260 mm); Depth: 1 in. (25 mm).
Chemise: H: 17 in. (432 mm); W: 10 1/4 in. (260 mm); Depth: 9/16 in. (15 mm).
Book: H: 16 3/4 in. (425 mm); W: 9 3/4 in. (247 mm); Depth: 3/8 in. (9 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 16 1/8 in. (409 mm); W: 9 in. (229 mm).
Medium: Original prints: 11 drypoints, incl. the chemise cover.
Text: letterpress in black with red.
Paper: white wove Chine d'autrefois.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss in honor of Barbara K. Sutherland
Object number: 1984.904
Label Text:One day the publisher Iliazd happened upon this obscure but refreshingly unclassical 17th century text about a thin lady who boasts of her virtue, but whom no one really wants to embrace because of her "hard, fleshless bones," and he decided to resurrect this unknown work. Picasso made 10 drypoints, most of which depict knights in armour and a rather spindly nude.
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