Books Illustrated by Picasso

1914. Max Jacob, Le siège de Jérusalem: grande tentation céleste de Saint Matorel. Paris: Henry Khanweiler, 1914. Edition of six hundred copies containing three etching and aquatints (g 35-37).

1917. Max Jacob, Le cornet à dés. Paris: Published by the author, 1917. Fourteen de luxe copies containing one burin engravings (G 54).

1918. Max Jacob, Le Phanérogame. Paris: Published by the author, 1918. Twenty de luxe copies with one etching (G 55).

1919. Exposition de dessins et aquarelles par Picasso. At the Paul Rosenberg Gallery, October 20-November 15, 1919. (Catalogue, with preface by André Samon, Paris, 1919) Cover: Femme assive devant une fenêtre (G 222).

1919. Max Jacob, La défense de Tartufe. Paris: Société littéraire de France, 1919. Twenty-five de luxe copies with one burin engraving (G 52).

1920. Le tricorne: album du Ballets russes. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1920, Fifty de luxe copies with one etching (G 56).

1921. Paul Valéry, La jeune parque. Paris: Nouvelle revue française, 1921. Edition of five hundred twenty-five copies with one transfer-lithograph (G 224).

1922. Pierre Reverdy, Cravates de chanvre. Paris: Nord-Sud, 1922. Editions of one hundred thirty-two copies: thirty de luxe copies with three etching (G 63-65), the others with one etching (G 6).

1923. André Breton, Clair de Terre. Paris: Published by the author, 1923. Forty de luxe copies containing one dry point (G 110).

1926. Waldemar George, Picasso: dessins, Paris: Editions des Quatre-Chemins, 1926. One hundred de luxe copies containing one lithograph (G 240).

1926. Christian Zervos, Picasso: œuvres 1920-1926. Paris: Editions des Cahiers d' Art,

1926.Fifty-six de luxe copies containing one etching (G 99).

1928. André Level, Picasso. Paris: Les Editions G. Crès & Cie., 1928. One hundred twenty de luxe copies containing one lithgraph (G 243).

1929. Le manuserit autographe, Number 21. Paris: Auguste Blaisot & Fils, May-June 1929. This edition of the magazine contains a supplement of one lithograph (G 246).

1930. Eugenio d'Ors, Pablo Picasso. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Juor, 1930. Fifty de luxe copies containing one lithgraph (G 247).

1931. Honoré de Balzac, Le chef-d' œuvre inconnu. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1931. Book Edition: three hundred forty copies containing thirteen etchings (G 123-135), and sixty-seven wood engravings by Aubert after drawings by Picasso. Sixty-five de luxe copies contain an additional series of etchings. Here the table of etchings has additional marginal drawings.

1931. Ovid, Les métamorphoses. Launsanne: Editions Albert Skira, 1931. Edition of one hundred forty-five copies with thirty etchings (G 143-172). Thirty de luxe copies contain an additional series of etchings.

1933. Tristan Traza, L'antitête. Paris: Les Chiers Libres, 1933. Eighteen copies contain proofs of one etching printed by the artist.

1934. Aristophanes, Lysistrata. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Contains six etchings.

1934. Georges Hugnet, Petite anthologie poétique du surréalisme. Paris: Editions Jeanne Bucher, 1934. Twety-eight de luxe copies containing one etching.

1934. Benjamin Péret, De derrière les fagots. Paris: Editions surréalistes, 1934. Twenty-four de luxe copies containing one etching.

1936. Paul Eulard, La barre d'appui. Paris: Editions des Cahiers d'Art, 1936. Edition of forty copies with three etchings.

1937. Pablo Picasso, Sueño y mentira di Franco. Paris: [?], 1937. Edition of fifty de luxe copies on Imperial Vellum, and eight hundred ninety copies on Arches. Title engraved; two large plates, etching and aquitant, each containing nine scenes of the Spanish civil War. Picasso's text reproduced in facsimile, and printed also in French and English.

1938. Luc Decaunes, L'indicatif présent ou l'infýrme tel qu'il est. Paris: Editions Soutes, 1938. Thirty de luxe copies containing one etching.

1938. Paul Eulard, Solidarité: poème. ( Paris): G. L. M., 1938. Edition of one hundred fifty copies with one etching by Picasso. In Addition, one etching by each of the following artists: J. buckland-Wright, Hayter, Husband, Masson, Miro, and Tanguy.

1939. Hommage là tchécoslovaquie. Paris: Les artistes tchécoslovaques, 1939. Text by F. Langer, Paul Claudel, and Paul Valéry, with one lino-cut by Picasso.

1940. André Breton, Anthologie de l'humour noir. Paris: Editions du Sagittaire, 1940. Thirteen de luxe copies containing one etching.

1940. Iliazd (pseudonym of Ilya Zdanevitch), Afat: soixanteseize sonnets. ( Paris: Degré 41 [Iliazd], 1940.) Edition of sixtyfour copies with six etchings.

1940. Pierre Mabille, Le miroir du merveilleux. Paris: Editions du Sagittaire, 1940. Nineteen de luxe copies containing one etching.

1941. Pual Eulard, Divers poèmes du livert (secondseries). Paris. Published by the author, April 18, 1941. Edition of fifteen copies. Original manuscript of twenty pages cpied fifteen times by Eulard; Picasso has illustrated each page of each copy differently.

1942. Buffon, Historire naturelle. Paris: Martin Fabiani, 1942. Two hundred twenty-six copies with thirty-one aquantints. Thirty-six de luxe copies contain a second series of aquatints.

1942. Georges Hugnet, Non-vouloir. Paris: Editions Jeanne Bucher, 1942. With four wood engravings. Twenty de luxe copies contain a series of four-color wood engravings and one etching.

1943. Georges Hugnet, Le chèvrefeuille. Paris Robert J. Godet, 1943. With six wood engravings. Twenty-five de luxe copies contain a series of three-color wood engravings and one etching. Eight other de luxe copies contain a series of three-color wood engravings.

1944. Robert Desnos, Contrée. Paris: Robert J. Godet, 1944. Edition of two hundred ten copies with one etching. The ten de luxe copies contain a series of colored etchings in three states, and a proof of a cancelled plate.

1944. Paul Eulard, A Pablo Picasso. Geneva: Editions des Trois Collines, 1944. Twenty-five de luxe copies containing one etching with marginal drawings and one proof of the cancelled plate. Sevety other de luxe copies have one etching without the marginal drawings.

1944. Paul Eulard, Au rendez-vous allemand. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1944. Twenty de luxe copies containing one etching.

1945. René Char, Le marteau sans maître, sequel to Moulin premier, 1927- 1935, definitive version. Paris: Librairie José Corti, 1945. Twenty-five de luxe copies containing one dry point.

1947. Albert Gleizes and J. Metzinger, Du cubisme. Paris: Compagnie française des arts graphiques, 1947. Edition of four hundred fifty-five copies with an etching by Picasso (G 42), proofs of one steel engraving. In addition, original wood engravings by M. Duchamp, M. Laurecin, Metzinger, Picabia, J. Villon, and others.

1947. Petrarch, Cing sonnets (with explications by the translator [ Louis Aragon]). Paris: A la Fontaine de Vaucluse, 1947. Edition of one hundred ten copies with one etching.

1947. Ramon Reventos, Dos contes. Paris-Barcelona: Editorial Albor, 1947. Edition of two hundred fifty copies with four etchings. Cover, title page, and initials are also by Picasso. Twenty de luxe copies contain a series of etchings.

1947. Ramon Reventos, Deux contes. Paris: Edition Albor, 1947. Edition of two hundred copies. Similar to the Catalan publication, except for the four new etchings Picasso made for this edition. Twenty de luxe copies contain a series of etchings.

1948. Gongora, Vingt Poèmes (translated by Z. Milner). Paris: Les Grands Peintres modernes et le Livre, 1948. Edition of two hundred seventy-five copies with forty-one etchings. The Spanish text has been engraved by the artist, the French translalation is printed. Fifteen de luxe copies contain a series of etchings and the first states of the engraved text.

1948. Iliazd ( Ilya Zdanevitch), Escrito. Paris: Latitud cuaranta y uno [Iliazd], 1948. Edition of sixty-six copies with six etchings.

1948. Ivan Coran Kovatchich, La commune. Paris: La Bibliothèque française, 1948. Edition of one hundred twenty copies with one dry point.

1948. Pierre Reverdy,, Le chant des morts: poèmes. Paris: Tériade, 1948. Edition of two hundred fifty copies with one hundred twenty-six lithographs (M 117).

1949. Ivan Goll, Elégie d'Ihpétonga, sequel to Masques de cendre. Paris: Editions Hémisphères, 1949. Edition of two hundred twenty copies with four lithographs (M 177). Twenty de luxe copies contain a series of lithographs.

1949. Iliazd ( Ilya Zdanevitch), Poésie de mots inconnus. Paris: Degré 41 [Iliazd], 1949. Edition of five hundred seventeen copies with one dry point and two lithographs by Picasso. In addition, wood engravings, lithographs, and etchings by Arp, Braque, Chagall, Giacometti, Laurens, Léger, Magnelli, Masson, Matisse, Miro, Villon, and others.

1949. Prosper Mérimée. Carmen. Paris: La Bibliothèque française, 1949. Edition of three hundred forty copies with thirtyeight burin engravings and four aquantints. Eleven de luxe copies contain an additional series of burin engravings with aquatint, and a series of burin engravings.

1950. AiméCésaire,Corps perdu. Paris: Fragrance, 1950. Edition of two hundred nineteen copies with thirty-two wood engravings. Thirty-six de luxe copies contain a series of wood engravings.

1950. Robert J. Godet, L'âge de soleil. Paris: Published by the author, 1950. Edition of two hundred twenty-four copies with one etching and one dry point. Ten de luxe copies contain five states each of engravings in black-and-white and in color.

1950. Tristan Tzara, De memoire d'homme. Paris: Bordas editeur, 1950. Edition of three hundred fifty copies with nine lithographs. Thirty de luxe copies contian a series of lithographs.

1951. Paul Eulard, Le visage de la paix (by Picasso and Eulard). Paris: Editions Cercle d'Art, 1951. With twenty-nine drawings. One hundred fifty de luxe copies contain one lithograph.

1951. Vakentine Penrose, Dons des féminines (preface by Paul Eulard). Paris: Librairie Les Pas Perdus, 1951. fifty de luxe copies containing one etching.

1952. Adrian de Monluc, Le maigre. Paris: Degré 41 [Iliazd], 1952. Edition of forty-seven copies with ten dry points.

1952. André Verdet, La chèvre. Paris: Editions de Beaune, 1952. Fifty de luxe copies containing one etching.

1953. Maurice Teosca, Six contes fantasques. Paris: Flammarion, 1953. Edition of two hundred copies with six burin engravings.

1954. Boris Kochno and Maria Luc, Le ballet (Arts du monde). Paris: Editions Hachette, 1954. The de luxe edition contains a colored lithograph.

1954. Cluade Roy, La guerre et la paix. Paris: Editions Cercle d'Art, 1954. One hundred de luxe copies containing one lithograph.

1955. Tristan Tzara, A haute flamme. Paris, 1955. Edition of seventy copies with six burin engravings.

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