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The Thin Woman (La maigre)

Artist Pablo Picasso (Spanish (active France), 1881-1973)
Publisher Le degré quarante et un, Paris, 1952 (Iliazd)
Printer text: Imprimerie Union, Paris (Jacques Snégaroff, Volf Chalit); drypoints: Atelier Roger Lacourière, Paris (Philippe Moliner, Jac
Author Adrien de Montluc, comte de, prince de Chabanais (French, died 1646)
Author Guillaume de Vaux (Adrien de Montluc, comte de Cramail) (French, 1589--1646)
Date1952
DimensionsBox: H: 175 1/4 in. (4451 mm); W: 10 7/8 in. (277 mm); Depth: 1 in. (26 mm).
Folder: H: 17 1/2 in. (444 mm); W: 10 1/4 in. (260 mm); Depth: 1 in. (25 mm).
Chemise: H: 17 in. (432 mm); W: 10 1/4 in. (260 mm); Depth: 9/16 in. (15 mm).
Book: H: 16 3/4 in. (425 mm); W: 9 3/4 in. (247 mm); Depth: 3/8 in. (9 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 16 1/8 in. (409 mm); W: 9 in. (229 mm).
MediumOriginal prints: 11 drypoints, incl. the chemise cover. Text: letterpress in black with red. Paper: white wove Chine d'autrefois.
ClassificationBooks
Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss in honor of Barbara K. Sutherland
Object number
1984.904
Not on View
Label TextOne day the publisher Iliazd happened upon this obscure but refreshingly unclassical 17th century text about a thin lady who boasts of her virtue, but whom no one really wants to embrace because of her "hard, fleshless bones," and he decided to resurrect this unknown work. Picasso made 10 drypoints, most of which depict knights in armour and a rather spindly nude.Published Referencescf. Strachan, W. J., The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century livre d'artiste, New York, 1969, p. 340

cf. Isselbacher, Audrey, Iliazd and the Illustrated Book, New York, 1987, no. 21

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. 73.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Picasso as an Illustrator, Jan. 23-May 29, 1988, no. 31.

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