Picasso: dessins d'un demi-siècle

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

Publisher Berggruen & cie., Paris, 1956

Printer lithograph: [Mourlot Frères, Paris]; text: L'Imprimerie Union, [Paris]; collotypes and pochoir: Jacomet, [Paris]

Date1956

DimensionsBook: H: 8 11/16 in. (220 mm); W: 4 5/8 in. (118 mm); Depth: 1/8 in. (3 mm).
Page: H: 8 11/16 in. (220 mm); W: 4 1/2 in. (115 mm).

MediumOriginal print: 1 transfer lithograph in colors (wrappers) on ivory wove paper. Reproductions: 22 collotypes (3 with added pochoir color) on cream wove paper. Text: letterpress on gray laid paper and cream wove paper.

ClassificationBooks

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

Object number

1984.910

Not on View

Label TextTristan Tzara first introduced the dealer Heinz Berggruen to Picasso in 1950, shorty before the Tzara/Picasso book DE MEMOIRE D'HOMME (see no. 29) was exhibited in Berggruen's gallery. On the occasion of the 1956 exhibition of Picasso's drawings done over a period of a half century (1902-1954), Berggruen published this small book with an appreciation written by Jardot. For the cover, Picasso made a color lithograph divided into two parts: the front shows a bacchanalian couple; the back, the face of a bearded man.Published Referencescf. Goeppert, Sebastian, et al., Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books, Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1983, no. 82.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Picasso as an Illustrator, Jan. 23-May 29, 1988, no. 38.