PICASSO, PABLO
1881 Malaga - 1973 Mougins
Title: Carnet de la Californie.
Date: 1959.
Technique: Facsimile reproduction of a notebook with 39 lithographs on Laid paper, bound in ring stitching. In original portfolio.
Depiction Size: Each: 42 x 27cm resp. 27 x 42cm.
Notation: Numbered in the imprint.
Publisher: M. DuMont Schauberg, Köln (Hrsg.).
Number: 478/500.
Condition:
Ring binder pages with minimally worn edges. Portfolio with signs of wear.
Otherwise in good condition.
The album contains a facsimile reproduction of a notebook used by Picasso in 1955/56.
notebook with 39 (17 colour) lithographic illustrations. From the German edition of 500 copies. With separate text booklet.
Provenance:
- Galerie Boisserée, Cologne (according to the consignor)
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen
Literature:
- Bloch, Georges (ed.): Pablo Picasso - Tome I, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et
lithographié 1904-1967, Bern 1971 (2nd ed.), WVZ. no. 900
- Goeppert, Sebastian/Goeppert-Frank, Herma/Cramer, Patrick (ed.): Pablo Picasso - The illustrated books: catalogue raisonné, Geneva 1983, WVZ. no. 101.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI 
