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Lot 116

Sale 5041 - Books & Manuscripts
Sep 26, 2013 6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$29,000
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1 vol. (Wrappers.)<...


1 vol. (Wrappers.)
(Picasso, Pablo.) Level, Andre. Picasso. Paris: G. Cres, 1928. 1/120. 4to, orig lettered cream wrapper; spine darkened, edges a little dust soiled, minor chipping to spine, front wrapper joint just starting to separate. With orig litho frontis, tissue guard, 2 color plates & 60 plain plates. Internally generally clean & crisp.
The original lithograph is numbered 156/200 & signed in pencil by Picasso; 120 of 200 of this litho served as the frontispiece of this monograph. Attractive example of the litho profile portrait of Picasso's mistress, Marie-Therese, and one of his first portraits of his muse. ["Visage de Marie-Therese"]; margins starting to tone, 3 small foxing spots below image at left.
See Bloch 95.

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