Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Reventós, Ramón. Picasso, Pablo. Dos Contes. El centaure Picador - El capvespre d’un Faune.

Titles and initials in brush-painting (reproduced). With 4 orig. copper engravings by Pablo Picasso, dated on the copper plate. 34 unn. leaves. 4to. Loose quires as issued in wrappers and wooden, ribbon-bound portfolio. – Paris and Barcelona, Editorial Albor, 1947.

First edition. One of 230 copies of a total edition of 250. The brothers Cinto and Ramón Reventós were both friends of Picasso since their youth. After the death of Ramón, his literary work written in Catalan was forgotten within a short time. Picasso much estimated the humourous stories and, when in Paris, he copied by hand the unpublished text from a manuscript held in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Picasso completed his four (not five as written in the colophon!) engravings between January 26 and February 2 of the publishing year. – Cramer 44; Bloch 468–471. – Some browning to the leaves especially fromt the margins. Inside of spine of wrappers foxed, slightly affecting a few quires. Outside of wrappers darkened. A still good copy of this rare and sought-after work. – Best.-Nr. 7953