Le Carmen des Carmen

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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)

Date1964

DimensionsBox: 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).

MediumOriginal 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.

ClassificationBooks

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

Object number

1984.938

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Label TextCarmen 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).Published Referencescf. Goeppert, Sebastian, et al., Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books, Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1983, no. 126Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Picasso as an Illustrator, Jan. 23-May 29, 1988, no. 57