The Magnificent Cuckold (Le cocu magnifique: pièce en trois actes) [drama]

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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

Date1968

DimensionsBox: 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).

MediumOriginal prints: 12 etchings (4 with aquatint and 1 with aquatint and drypoint). Text: letterpress (typeface: Elzévir Caslon). Paper: Rives white wove paper.

ClassificationBooks

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

Object number

1984.943

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Published Referencescf. Goeppert, Sebastian, et al., Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books: Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1983, no. 140

cf. Johnson, Robert Flynn, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870--2000: The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books, San Francisco, 2001, no. 91.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Picasso as an Illustrator, 1988, no. 59

Toledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Illustrated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 72

Toledo Museum of Art, Embracing the Page, Feb. 14-May 19, 2002

Toledo Museum of Art, Splendid Pages: The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books, Feb. 14--May 11, 2003.

Label TextThese 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.