Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)
Carmen des Carmen, 1964

PRESENTATION : in-4 in leaves under linen case. 
EDITOR : Les Editeurs Francais Reunis, 1964
ILLUSTRATION : 5 original plates by Pablo Picasso : 3 aquatint etchings, one drypoint etching & one colored lithograph all numbered in pencil. Also numerous border illustrations and decorations including some in color and some full page (including all the original illustrations of the original Carmen published in 1949). 
SIGNATURE : Handsigned by Picasso and Aragon on the justification page. 
PRINTER : Lacouriere-Frelaut & Crommelynck for the etchings and Mourlot for the lithographs. 
LIMITED : 245 numbered copies. 
PAPER : Arches vellum.  - SIZE : 35 x 26 cm (14 x 10"1/2). 
REFERENCES : Bloch 1000-1005; Cramer/Goeppert 126; Mourlot 332. 
INFORMATION : Cramer gives the story f this edition : "On dec. 5, 1957 Picasso adorned a copy of Carmen [a book he illustrated in 1949 with 38 etchings] with drawings : on the blank pages pages and in the margins of printed ones, he made wash drawings of beautiful Spanish women, picadors, toreros, and bulls grazing in the countryside. He also made some ornaments and a double page drawing in colored chalk depicting a corrida in a bull ring. (...) Duhamel suggested to his friend Aragon that he publish a facsimile edition of the decorated copy. To acompany this new Carmen, Picasso made a drypoint of a picador (...) a lithograph depicting a torero and a pretty Spanish girl. To this, the artist added 4 aquatints (the4th was reserved to the deluxe copies)".
CONDITION : Excellent.