Pablo Picasso and Rafael Alberti.
El entierro del Conde de Orgaz.
Barcelona: Atelier Gustavo (Gustau) Gili for Edicions la Cometa, 1969.
AN OUTSTANDING LIVRE DE PEINTRE WITH A SIGNED ORIGINAL ENGRAVING AND 12 ORIGINAL HORS-TEXTE ETCHINGS BY PABLO PICASSO.
Three parts, complete: a facsimile of Picasso's manuscript; a signed engraving ("Trozo de almíbar") executed in 1939; the printed text, illustrated with 12 etchings and SIGNED by PIcasso below the justification. The rare prospectus is laid in.
Edition limited to 263 copies printed on extremely fine Romani wove paper.
Large folio (37 x 47 cm). Loose as issued with each part in original wraps, the whole housed in the original vellum folding case.
FINE AND BRIGHT, WITH NO DEFECTS. ABSOLUTELY PRISTINE.
Cramer 146; Bloch 1465-1477, etc.
ONE OF THE GREAT POSTWAR LIVRES DE PEINTRE.
