Two Tales: The Centaur Picador, The Twilight of the Faun (Deux contes: le centaure picador, le crépuscule d'un faune)

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Two Tales: The Centaur Picador, The Twilight of the Faun (Deux contes: le centaure picador, le crépuscule d'un faune)

Artist Pablo Picasso Spanish (active France), 1881-1973

Publisher Éditions Albor, Paris, 1947 (Henri Jonquières)

Printer drypoints: Atelier Roger Lacourière, [Paris]; decorations: Hourdebaigt et Crampe; text: Coulouma, [Paris]

Author Ramón Reventós Spanish, 1881-1924

Date1947

DimensionsChemise: H: 13 1/4 in. (337 mm); W: 10 1/4 in. (260 mm); Depth: 1 1/4 in. (32 mm).
Book: H: 13 1/8 in. (334 mm); W: 10 1/4 in. (260 mm); Depth: 1/2 in. (13 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 13 1/16 in. (332 mm); W: 9 7/8 in. (251 mm).
Portfolio: H: 13 1/16 in. (332 mm); W: 10 in. (254 mm).
Sheet: H: 14 11/16 in. (373 mm); W: 9 7/8 in. (251 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 4 drypoints, plus an extra suite on cream Montval laid paper, with annotations. Text: letterpress (typeface: Rockwell), and collotype reproductions of the artist's brush lettering. Paper: Lana cream wove paper, watermarked.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss in honor of Barbara K. Sutherland

Object number

1984.893

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Published Referencescf. Goeppert, Sebastian, et al., Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books, Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1983, 45

cf. Strachan, W. J., The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century livre d'artiste, New York, 1969, p. 340

cf. Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 232.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Picasso as an Illustrator, Jan. 23-May 29, 1988, no. 19

Toledo Museum of Art, Don't Feed the Books: Birds, Bugs, and Bestiaries Featuring the Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books, 2001, repr. p. 2.

Label TextEncouraged by the success of DOS CONTES ("Two Tales"), the publisher made a French version of the book and Picasso provided four different print illustration: the centaur pulling its masters cart, the centaur fighting the bull, the faun playing a flute, and the death of the faun.