Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Godet, Robert J.. Picasso, Pablo. L’age de soleil.

With frontispiece in héliogravure (woman’s face, inscribed “Picasso pour Roby”), the same repeated in black (loose as issued), and an aquatint “La Torera” (loose as issued), all by Pablo Picasso. 78, (2) pp. 4to. Orig. wrappers, uncut. – Paris, Aux dépens de l’auteur, 1950.

Edition originale. One of 100 copies with roman numbers on vélin du Marais, signed in the colophon by the author and with repeated frontispiece in black and additional etching “La Torera”, dated on the plate “samedi 29 avril 1944”. The total edition was 1114 copies of which 114 were de luxe copies, 14 on hand-made paper with the frontispiece engraving in five different states. The author-publisher Robert J. Godet already published “La Chèvre-feuille” by Georges Hugnet in 1943 and “Contrée” by Robert Desnos in 1944, both illustrated by Pablo Picasso. – Bloch 680 and 369 resp. books no. 57; Cramer 57. – Fine copy. – Best.-Nr. 7705