Memories of a Collector (Souvenirs d’un collectionneur)

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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)

Date1959

DimensionsBook: 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).

MediumOriginal print: lithograph. Reproductions: 2 collotype reproductions of holograph letters from Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire. Text: letterpress. Paper: Lourmarin cream wove.

ClassificationBooks

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

Object number

1984.924

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Label TextLevel 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.Published Referencescf. Goeppert, Sebastian, et al., Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books, Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1983, no. 99.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Picasso as an Illustrator, Jan. 23-May 23, 1988, no. 47.