In Picasso's Studio (Dans l'atelier de Picasso)

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In Picasso's Studio (Dans l'atelier de Picasso)

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

Publisher Fernand Mourlot, Paris, 1957

Printer text: L'Imprimerie Nationale, [Paris] (Georges Arnoult); typography: Lucien Jaïs, [Paris]; plates: Mourlot Frères with the assista

Author Jaime Sabartés (Spanish, 1881-1968)

Date1957

DimensionsBox: H: 18 1/2 in. (470 mm); W: 14 in. (355 mm); Depth: 2 3/8 in. (61 mm).
Book: H: 17 1/2 in. (445 mm); W: 13 1/8 in. (334 mm); Depth: 1 9/16 in. (39 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 17 5/16 in. (439 mm); W: 12 11/16 in. (322 mm).
Element: H: 17 5/8 in. (448 mm); W: 13 1/4 in. (337 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 17 5/16 in. (439 mm); W: 12 11/16 in. (322 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 6 transfer lithographs, incl. wrappers, plus a suite of 13 lithographs on Hodomura Japan paper. Reproductions: collotypes of paintings and drawings in colors, some with added pochoir color; plus photolithographs of drawings in black and in colors. Text: letterpress in black with green and orange (typeface: Grandjean). Paper: Arches cream wove paper, watermarked.

ClassificationBooks

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

Object number

1984.913

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Label TextSabartes, Picasso's friend from their early Barcelona days, became the artist's secretary in November 1935, and served in this capacity for thirty years. This text gives some genealogical details about Picass's family, reflects on the personality of the artist, quotes lengthy excerpts from their conversations, and relates the story of how the lithography printer and publisher Mourlot met Picasso. The book is illustrated with 30 reproductions of works in Picasso's studio and 6 original lithographs. The deluxe edition, as this copy is, comes with 7 additional lithographs. All the lithographs were drawn ten years previously.Published Referencescf. Goeppert, Sebastian, et al., Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books, Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1983, no. 88.

cf. Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 240

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. 79.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Picasso as an Illustrator, Jan. 23-May 29, 1988, no. 41.