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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Max Jacob, Saint Matorel, D. Henry Kahnweiler, 1911, Paris Folio 27 x 23cm (10 5/8 x 9 1/16) (Printed by Dêlatre, Paris. Presented in a citron morocco binding by Renaud Vernier) image 1
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Max Jacob, Saint Matorel, D. Henry Kahnweiler, 1911, Paris Folio 27 x 23cm (10 5/8 x 9 1/16) (Printed by Dêlatre, Paris. Presented in a citron morocco binding by Renaud Vernier) image 2
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Max Jacob, Saint Matorel, D. Henry Kahnweiler, 1911, Paris Folio 27 x 23cm (10 5/8 x 9 1/16) (Printed by Dêlatre, Paris. Presented in a citron morocco binding by Renaud Vernier) image 3
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Max Jacob, Saint Matorel, D. Henry Kahnweiler, 1911, Paris Folio 27 x 23cm (10 5/8 x 9 1/16) (Printed by Dêlatre, Paris. Presented in a citron morocco binding by Renaud Vernier) image 4
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Max Jacob, Saint Matorel, D. Henry Kahnweiler, 1911, Paris Folio 27 x 23cm (10 5/8 x 9 1/16) (Printed by Dêlatre, Paris. Presented in a citron morocco binding by Renaud Vernier) image 5
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Max Jacob, Saint Matorel, D. Henry Kahnweiler, 1911, Paris Folio 27 x 23cm (10 5/8 x 9 1/16) (Printed by Dêlatre, Paris. Presented in a citron morocco binding by Renaud Vernier) image 6
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Max Jacob, Saint Matorel, D. Henry Kahnweiler, 1911, Paris Folio 27 x 23cm (10 5/8 x 9 1/16) (Printed by Dêlatre, Paris. Presented in a citron morocco binding by Renaud Vernier) image 7
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Max Jacob, Saint Matorel, D. Henry Kahnweiler, 1911, Paris Folio 27 x 23cm (10 5/8 x 9 1/16) (Printed by Dêlatre, Paris. Presented in a citron morocco binding by Renaud Vernier) image 8
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Pablo Picasso
(1881-1973)
Max Jacob, Saint Matorel, D. Henry Kahnweiler, 1911, Paris Folio 27 x 23cm (10 5/8 x 9 1/16)

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23 March 2021, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Max Jacob, Saint Matorel, D. Henry Kahnweiler, 1911, Paris
signed in ink by the artist and the author on the justification, copy number 66 of 100
the set of four etchings, on Van Gelder laid paper
Folio 27 x 23cm (10 5/8 x 9 1/16)
Printed by Dêlatre, Paris. Presented in a citron morocco binding by Renaud Vernier

Footnotes

Literature
Georges Bloch Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié, Volume I, 1904-1967, Berne, 1968 (Bl.19-22).
Geiser & Baer Picasso Peintre-graveur, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé, Volume I, 1899-1931, Berne, 1990 (B.23-26).
Patrick Cramer, Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books Catalogue Raisonné, Geneva, 1983 (CR.2).

It was when Picasso was aged 24 and living in Montmartre that one of his original prints first appeared in a book, André Salmon's Poèmes (1905). For his second livre d'artiste, Max Jacob's 1911 Saint Matorel, Picasso collaborated with the publisher Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler who would go on to commission numerous other illustrated books from the artist.

Over seven decades, Picasso would produce more than a hundred and fifty artist's books, for Ambroise Vollard such as Balzac's Chef d'oeuvre inconnu (lot 47), Pierre-André Benoît, Albert Skira, and others.

For Picasso, illustrating books was never an afterthought; with his prolific output of graphic works, interacting with literary texts was a natural step. Story and image combine in the intimate setting of these books.

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Signed to Spencer Tracy 1952 Hemingway, Ernest. 1899-1961. The Old Man and the Sea, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.
A Presentation Copy of Kennedy's First Book to Spencer Tracy. Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963. Why England Slept. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940.
ADVERTISING POSTERfor 'The Suffragette' newspaper, [c.1913-1914]
ILLUMINATED ADDRESS – CLARA CODD Illuminated printed address signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, [1909]
MUSIC & RECORDINGS – ETHEL SMYTH Collection of printed music, song sheets and records, [c.1911-1912]
PROGRAMMES & EPHEMERA Relating to demonstrations and events, 1908 onwards, including programme owned by Emily Wilding Davison