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Pablo Picasso, Honoré de Balzac (author)

Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu, 1931

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Medium

unbound volume with 13 etchings,2 wood-engravings on the cover and 67 wood-engravings after Picasso drawings, all on BFK Rives paper with deckled edges

Dimensions

book: 33.4 × 26.2 × 4 cm (13 1/8 × 10 5/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
case: 34.2 × 26.8 × 5.4 cm (13 7/16 × 10 9/16 × 2 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as an Anonymous Gift

Catalogue Raisonné

Geiser/Baer 1990-1992, nos. 123-135

Accession Number

2013.169.7.1-13

Artists / Makers

Pablo Picasso (artist) Spanish, 1881 - 1973

Honoré de Balzac (author) French, 1799 - 1850

Albert Besnard (author) French, 1849 - 1934

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Inscription

inside upper cover upper left in blue pen: 76-47-10, in graphite upper right on first gathering cover: 2781/894

Provenance

Zucker; acquired in 1976 by Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, Boston; (Christie's via Ursus Books, New York, sale Tuesday 29 October, 2013, no. 894); purchased by Anonymous Donor; gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Ursus Books and Prints, Ltd.

Bibliography

1990: Geiser, Bernhard and Brigette Baer. Picasso peintre-graveur. 2 vols. Berne: Éditions Kornfeld, 1990 (vol. 1) and 1992 (vol. 2), nos. 123-135. See Baer 1986-1996 for volumes 1 and 2.