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PICASSO (PABLO) [MERIMÉE (PROSPER)] Les Carmen des Carmen, NUMBER 208 OF 245 COPIES "sur Arches", from an overall edition of 275, signed by Picasso (in red pencil) and Aragon on the colophon, SUITE OF 5 ORIGINAL PRINTS BY PICASSO, Paris, Editeurs Francais Réunis, 1964 image 1
PICASSO (PABLO) [MERIMÉE (PROSPER)] Les Carmen des Carmen, NUMBER 208 OF 245 COPIES "sur Arches", from an overall edition of 275, signed by Picasso (in red pencil) and Aragon on the colophon, SUITE OF 5 ORIGINAL PRINTS BY PICASSO, Paris, Editeurs Francais Réunis, 1964 image 2
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PICASSO (PABLO)
[MERIMÉE (PROSPER)] Les Carmen des Carmen, NUMBER 208 OF 245 COPIES "sur Arches", from an overall edition of 275, signed by Picasso (in red pencil) and Aragon on the colophon, SUITE OF 5 ORIGINAL PRINTS BY PICASSO, Paris, Editeurs Francais Réunis, 1964

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PICASSO (PABLO)

[MERIMÉE (PROSPER)] Les Carmen des Carmen, NUMBER 208 OF 245 COPIES "sur Arches", from an overall edition of 275, signed by Picasso (in red pencil) and Aragon on the colophon, SUITE OF 5 ORIGINAL PRINTS BY PICASSO, comprising a colour lithograph, a drypoint etching, and 3 aquatints, each numbered in pencil "208/245", plates, marginal illustrations and decorations (some in colour) by Picasso, loose as issued in publisher's stiff wrappers, original jute-covered solander box, lettered in red on spine, slightly rubbed and split at joint [Cramer 126; Monod 8045], folio (358 x 260mm.), Paris, Editeurs Francais Réunis, 1964

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INCLUDES A SUITE OF 5 ORIGINAL PRINTS BY PICASSO. The text is a facsimile of a copy of Carmen which Picasso in 1957 lavishly illustrated, and donated for sale to benefit the National Committee of Writers. It was purchased by Marcel Duhamel, who subsequently invited his friend Louis Aragon to write an afterword and publish this fine edition.

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