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Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1967 Originele uitgeversomslag in kleur, 18.6x27.6 cm., geillustreerd in z/w en kleur, tekst nederlands/frans.
Reference : 26630
Tentoonstellingscatalogus Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 4 maart - 30 april 1967. Catalogus nr. 411.
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"APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUME - PICASSO (ILLUSTR.) - JEAN COCTEAU - LÉON BAKST - SERGE DIAGHILEV.
Reference : 60103
(1917)
BALLETS RUSSES. PROGRAMME. PARIS 1917. Les Ballets Russes a Paris. Représentations Exceptionelles avec le gracieux Concours des Artistes de M. Serge de Diaghilew. - Programme des Ballets Russes. Les Ballets Russes à Paris. Saison - Mai 1917. [Guillau... - [HAND-PAINTED BY PICASSO - COINING ""SURREALISM""]
Paris, Mai 1917. Folio. Original illustrated extra wrappers (with a picture by Picasso on the front and the décor for ""Baba Iaga"" on the back)"" original illustrated wrappers for ""Théatre du Chatelet"" (drawing by André Marty on front, and advertisements on back) in grey and red"" original illustrated coloured wrappers for ""Programme des Ballets Russes"" (front wrapper illustrated by Picasso with the Chinaman-costume from ""Parade""). A bit of soiling to the extra-wrappers and small professional restorations to upper front cover and top of spine (this barely noticeable) as well as to blank margin of back wrapper. Apart from that, an excellent and very well perserved copy with only slight browning to some leaves. Apart from the described wrappers and extra-wrappers, there are, in all, 24 leaves with -mostly photographic- illustrations (four of them with original hand-colouring on top) and 6 leaves of text.With the original errata-leaf laid in loose, stating also that the illustrations ""Femmes de bonne humeaur"" and ""Parade"" have been hand-painted by Carlos Socrate, after the designs of Bakst and Picasso, and that the front wrapper for ""Parade"" (the Chinaman) has been handpainted by Picasso himself.
Scarce original printing of this seminal avantgarde-publication, the May 1917 ""Théatre du Chatelet""- publication that presents Diaghilev's ""Ballets Russes"" in Paris - here containing the entire separate publication mainly devoted to Jean Cocteau's groundbreaking ballet ""Parade"" - being one of the most important publications in the history of modern art. It is here, in his presentation-article to ""Parade"" that Apollinaire coins the term ""surrealism"" and thus lays the foundation for the seminal cultural movement that Bréton came to lead. Furthermore, the ballet ""Parade"" represents a historical collaboration between several of the leading artistic minds of the early twentieth century: Erik Satie, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Léonide Massine, and Serge Diaghilev, and is famous, not only for its contents and its music, but also for its magnificent costumes designed by Picasso, the drawings of which are presented in the present publication for the first time - most famously the front cover for the ""Parade""-programme, which depicts the ""Costume de Chinois du ballet ""PARADE""/ Aquarelle de Picasso"", an etching with original, stunning pochoir-colouring (hand-painted by Picasso himself!).It is the 1917 ballet ""Parade"" - the first of the modern ballets - originally presented for the first time in the present publication, that marks Picasso's entry into the public and bourgeois institutions of ballet and theatre and presents Cubism on the stage for the first time. The present publication constitutes an outright revolution in the history of art, theatre, and ballet.Several variants of this spectacular publication exist, but the one we have here is as original and complete as it comes, containing the entire contents of the different variants. We not only have the extremely scarce and fragile dust-wrapper and the equally scarce illustrated coloured double-wrappers (front: ""Peinture de Picasso"""" back: Décor de Larionow pour le ballet ""BABA IAGA""""), but also the entire 1917 ""Théatre du Chatelet""-programme (in original illustrated wrappers) with the entire separate ""parade""-issue -also entitled ""Programme des Ballets Russes""- (also in original illustrated wrappers), with more than 20 leaves of photographic illustrations containing pictures of the actors and actresses, also in their spectacular avant-garde-costumes, Bakst's portrait of Leonide Massine, Picasso's portrait of Stavinski, Bakst's portrait of Picasso, Picasso and Massine in the ruins of Pompei, Picasso's drawings of a scene from ""Parade"" and of Massine, as well as several (mostly humorous) advertisements. But more importantly, we have, apart from the above-mentioned famous Chinaman by Picasso, in original pochoir-colouring, the other famous etching by Picasso ""Costume d'acrobate du ballet ""Parade""/ Aquarelle de Picasso"", also in original pochoir-colouring (bright blue), the seminal presentation-article by Apollinaire, which coins the term ""surrealism"" (see bottom of description for full translation of this groundbreaking preface), the two ""Les Femmes de Bonne Humeur""-figures by Bakst, Constanza and Battista, printed and heightened in gold (pochoir), the printed costume by Larionow, ""Les contes russes"", which is with original bright red and blue pochoir-colouring, and the ""Le Mendiant""-costume by Bakst for ""Parade"", and, of course, the texts by Bakst (on choreography and décor), Georges-Michel (Ballets Russes after the War), as well as the texts for the various ballets (listing the actors and their rôles as well as a resume of the plot). "" ""Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far."" Jean Cocteau, poet, writer, and arts advocate, made this statement in his 1918 manifesto, The Cock and Harlequin. Cocteau, in collaboration with Erik Satie and Pablo Picasso, discovered ""how far"" to ""go too far"" in the circus-like ballet Parade-one of the most revolutionary works of the twentieth century. Parade incorporates elements of popular entertainment and uses extra-musical sounds, such as the typewriter, lottery wheel, and pistol, combining them with the art of ballet. Cocteau wrote the scenario for the one-act ballet and contracted the other artists. Satie wrote the score to the ballet, first in a piano four-hands version and then in full orchestration, while Picasso designed the curtain, set, and costumes. Later, Léonide Massine, a dancer with the Ballet Russes, was brought in as the choreographer. Serge Diaghilev's Ballet Russes premiered the ballet Parade on May 18, 1917. The program notes for the ballet were written by the poet Apollinaire. They became a manifesto of l'esprit nouveau or ""the new spirit"" which was taking hold in Paris during the early twentieth-century. Apollinaire described the ballet Parade as ""surrealistic,"" and in doing so created a term which would develop into an important artistic school."" (Tracy A. Doyle, Erik Satie's ballet PARADE, p. 1).When the French poet and army officer Guillaume Apollinaire wrote the program notes For ""Parade"", he created the manifesto of the ""l'esprit nouveau"" - ""the new spirit"". Cocteau had called the ballet ""realistic"", but Apollinaire took it an important step further and described it as ""surrealistic"", thus coining a term that would soon develop into an important artistic movement. With Picasso, Apollinaire had established the aesthetic principals of Cubism and was considered a leader in the European avant-garde. ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF APOLLINAIRE'S PROGRAMME NOTES TO ""PARADE"": ""Definitions of Parade are blossoming everywhere, like the lilac bushes of this tardy spring...It is a scenic poem transposed by the innovative musician Erik Satie into astonishingly expressive music, so clear and simple that it seems to reflect the marvelously lucid spirit of France. The cubist painter Picasso and the most daring of today's choreographers, Léonide Massine, have here consummately achieved, for the first time, that alliance between painting and dance, between the plastic and mimetic arts, that is a herald of the more comprehensive art to come. There is nothing paradoxical about this. The Ancients, in whose lives music played such an important role, were totally unaware of harmony, which constitutes the very basis of modern music. This new alliance - I say new, because until now scenery and costumes were linked only by factitious bonds - has given rise, in Parade, to a kind of surrealism, which I consider to be the point of departure for a whole series of Manifestations of the New Spirit that is making itself felt today and that will certainly appeal to our best minds. We may expect it to bring about profound changes in our arts and manners through universal joyfulness, for it is only natural, after all, that they keep pace with scientific and industrial progress. Having broken with the choreographic tradition cherished by those who used to be known, in Russia, under the strange name 'balletomanes', Massine has been careful not to yield to the temptation of pantomime. He has produced something totally new-a marvelously appealing kind of dance, so true, so lyrical, so human, and so joyful that it would even be capable (if it were worth the trouble) of illuminating the terrible black sun of Dürer's Melancholy. Jean Cocteau has called this a realistic ballet. Picasso's cubist costumes and scenery bear witness to the realism of his art. This realism - or this cubism, if you will - is the influence that has most stirred the arts over the past ten years. The costumes and scenery in Parade show clearly that its chief aim has been to draw the greatest possible amount of aesthetic emotion from objects. Attempts have often been made to return painting to its barest elements. In most of the Dutch painters, in Chardin, in the impressionists, one finds hardly anything but painting. Picasso goes further than any of them. This is clearly evident in Parade, a work in which one's initial astonishment is soon replaced by admiration. Here the aim is, above all, to express reality. However, the motif is not reproduced but represented-more precisely, it is not represented but rather suggested by means of an analytic synthesis that embraces all the visible elements of an object and, if possible, something else as well: an integral schematization that aims to reconcile contradictions by deliberately renouncing any attempt to render the immediate appearance of an object. Massine has Adapted himself astonishingly well to the discipline of Picasso's art. He has identified himself with it, and his art has become enriched with delightful inventions, such as the realistic steps of the horse in Parade, Formed by two dancers, one of whom does the steps of the forelegs and the other those of the hind legs. The fantastic constructions representing the gigantic and surprising features of The Managers, far from presenting an obstacle to Massine's imagination, have, one might say, served to give it a liberating impetus. All in all, Parade will change the ideas of a great many spectators. They will be surprised, that is certain" but in a most agreeable way, and charmed as well Parade will reveal to them all the gracefulness of the Modern movements, a gracefulness they never suspected. A magnificent vaudeville Chinaman will make their imaginations soar" the American Girl cranking up her imaginary car will express the magic of their daily lives, whose wordless rites are celebrated with exquisite and astonishing agility by the acrobatin blue and white tights.""
Reference : 014099
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COLLECTION COMPLETE; >> I. Les Picasso de Dora Maar. Vente à Paris les 27 et 28 octobre 1998 : 142 lots décrits et pour la plus part reproduits: tableaux et dessins, bijoux, sculptures, papiers déchirés, galets et tessons gravés, estampes, clichés verre, photographies... Oeuvres de Picasso, Dora Maar, Oscqr Dominguez, Joan Miro, Jean Cocteau, Balthus, Fenosa, Jacques Villon. --- II Pablo Picasso et Dora Maar. Une Histoire - des oeuvres. Photographies de 1906 à 1946. 28/29 octobre 1998. 275 lots décrits dont beaucoup sont reproduits, photographies de Picasso, de ses oeuvres et des amis de Picasso et Dora Maar par elle-même, Brassai, Braque, Rogi André, Caillet, Cauvin, Chevojon, Cocteau, Eluard, Izis, Man Ray, Photolido, Picasso, Vaux et Ventosa. --- III. Les Livres de Dora Maar. Autographes et documents. 29 octobre 1998. 386 lots décrits dont beaucoup reproduits. Ouvrages et autographes de Bataille, Breton, Braque, Breton, Char, Cocteau, Deharme, Desnos, Du Bouchet, Eluard, Ernst, Hugnet, Picasso, Iliazd, Jouve, Leiris, Matisse, Michaux, Paalen, Péret, Prevert, Reverdy, Tanguy, Tzara... --- IV. Les photographies de Dora Maar: Une Histoire Des Oeuvres. 20 novembre 1998. Note biographique et descriptions des 230 lots comprenant des photographies anonymes, de nombreuses images de Dora Maar, et d'Albin-Guillot, Sougez, Man Ray, Izis, Brassaï, Lee Miller, Rogi André, Ina Bandy et Irving Penn. Parmi ces clichés des portraits de Picasso, et la fameuse série de Guernica qui montre l'élaboration du célèbre tableaux. --- V. L'Atelier de Dora Maar. 26 novembre 1998. Repères biographiques. Cette vacation proposait 160 tableaux exécutés par la compagne de Picasso, et des oeuvres de Wifredo Lam (3), Oscar Dominguze (1) et Marie-Laure de Noailles (3). 44 reproductions en couleurs. -- VI. Atelier de Dora Maar. 7 décembre 1998. Dessins, aquarelles, peintures sur toile, bijoux, argenterie, objets d'art et d'ameublement, matériel de peintre, tapis d'Orient. 11 photographies en noir. -- VII. Derniers souvenirs de Dora Maar. 26/27 mai 1999. Oeuvres de Pablo PICASSO, Croquis de BALTHUS, ensemble de dessins et peintures de Wifredo LAM, oeuvres de Dora MAAR, De Stael,... 244 lot décrits dont plus de cent reproduits. --- VIII. Les Photographies de Dora Maar. Une dernière rencontre. 19 novembre 1999. Photos de Dora Maar, Brassaï, Izis, Man Ray, Rogi André. 100 lots. >>>L'ENSEMBLE des 8 CATALOGUES des ventes DORA MAAR Très bon 0
TEMPÉRATURE. 4 gravures originales. "Le plus petit livre gravé de Picasso" (1960), avec dédicace de Jacqueline.
Alès, PAB, Juin 1960. Minuscule oblong (21 x 40 mm) en feuilles, illustré des plus petites gravures jamais réalisées par Picasso. 4 GRAVURES ORIGINALES SUR CELLULOÏD DE PABLO PICASSO. - Édition : 36 exemplaires justifiés, signés par l'artiste et l'éditeur Pierre-André Benoit. Le plus petit livre de Picasso, "Température" avec un court texte de Jacqueline Roque, édité par Pierre André Benoit en 1960. " Qu'ont donc les gens à être si frileux de leur cœur ? À peine l'entrouvrent-ils qu'ils le referment au moindre souffle d'air". TRÈS PRÉCIEUX EXEMPLAIRE PORTANT UN ENVOI AU CRAYON DE JACQUELINE ROQUE À UN COUPLE D'AMIS. - Note historique et bibliographique : cet ouvrage fut publié l'année précédant le mariage de Picasso avec Jacqueline Roque. C'est l'un des 17 "petits livres papillons" issus de la collaboration entre Picasso et PAB, l'artiste et le poète éditeur, collaboration qui dura plus de dix ans. Pierre-André-Benoit avait d'abord envoyé à Picasso par la poste, une plaque de celluloïd vierge permettant de graver de petits formats. Un jour, il reçut par courrier une première planche gravée d'un visage… Rarissime. Parfait état. - Références : PAB, 363 - Goeppert-Cramer, Picasso Les Livres, 104 - Coron, Le fruit donné, pp.35, 42. Photographies supplémentaires sur demande. -- ENGLISH DESCRIPTION: Jacqueline Roque and Pablo Picasso: TEMPERATURE. Alès, PAB, June 1960. A tiny oblong volume (21 x 40 mm), in loose sheets, illustrated with the smallest engravings ever made by Picasso. - 4 ORIGINAL ENGRAVINGS ON CELLULOID BY PABLO PICASSO. Edition: 36 justified copies, signed by the artist and the publisher Pierre-André Benoit. Picasso's smallest book, "Temperature" with a short text by Jacqueline Roque, edited by Pierre André Benoit in 1960. “What is wrong with people that they are so cautious about their hearts? As soon as they open it, they close it at the slightest breath of air.” HISTORICAL NOTE: This work was published the year before Picasso's marriage to Jacqueline Roque. It is one of the 17 “little butterfly books” resulting from the collaboration between Picasso and PAB, the artist and the poet publisher, a collaboration which lasted more than ten years. Pierre-André-Benoit first sent Picasso by post a blank celluloid plate allowing him to engrave small formats. One day, he received by mail a first plate engraved with a face… Extremely rare. In a perfect state. (Literature: PAB, 363 - Goeppert-Cramer, Picasso Les Livres, 104 - Coron, The given fruit, pp.35, 42). Additional photographs on request.
Rarissime. Parfait état. - Références : PAB, 363 - Goeppert-Cramer, Picasso Les Livres, 104 - Coron, Le fruit donné, pp.35, 42.
[Picasso] - BALZAC, Honoré de - PICASSO, Pablo - BONET, Paul
Reference : 3114
(1931)
LE CHEF-D'ŒUVRE INCONNU. Eaux-fortes de Pablo Picasso. Exemplaire sur Japon, signé, dans une reliure «sculptée» de Paul Bonet (1931).
Paris, Ambroise Vollard Éditeur, 1931. Un volume in-4 (32 x 24 cm). Remarquable reliure "sculptéee de Paul Bonet en plein box bleu nuit et décor polychome en relief, chemise et étui (signée et datée de 1944). - 12 EAUX-FORTES ORIGINALES EN HORS-TEXTE et 1 EAU-FORTE pour la "table des eaux-fortes" GRAVÉES PAR PABLO PICASSO. - UNE SUITE COMPLÈTE DES 12 GRAVURES HORS-TEXTE SUR VÉLIN DE RIVES. - Dessins de l'artiste gravés sur bois par Georges Aubert et tirés en in-texte. Une "préface" de 16 pages de dessins composés de points et de traits dessinés par Picasso en 1924 également gravés sur bois par Aubert. Tirage : 340 exemplaires (65 Japon + 240 vélin de Rives + 35 H.C.). Celui-ci 1 DES 65 EXEMPLAIRES SUR JAPON IMPÉRIAL, LES SEULS SIGNÉS AU PINCEAU PAR PICASSO et monogramés à la plume par Vollard, avec UNE SUITE COMPLÈTE DES 12 GRAVURES HORS-TEXTE SUR VÉLIN DE RIVES. - Dans une extraordinaire reliure "sculptée" de Paul Bonet, datée 1944 : "box bleu corbeau, un grand caisson ovale occupe presque chaque plat, encadrant un grand motif abstrait sculpté et couvert de veau de différentes couleurs vives" (Carnets, n°692), couverture conservée, chemise, étui. Bonet n'a réalisé qu'une poignée de ces fameuses reliures sculptées qui sont très recherchées. Celle-ci étant l'une des plus réussies et des plus élégantes. —— ENGLISH DESCRIPTION: Paris, Ambroise Vollard Éditeur, 1931. Illustrated with 12 original etchings by Pablo Picasso (and 1 for the plate "Table des eaux-fortes") and numerous woodcuts by G. Aubert after the drawings by Picasso. One of 65 NUMBERED ON JAPAN PAPER SIGNED BY PICASSO AND VOLLARD with an EXTRA SUITE of the 12 original etchings on Rives paper. Only the 65 numbered on japan paper are signed by Picasso and Vollard. Mint condition. Outstanding "sculptural" binding by Paul Bonet, dated 1944: "raven blue box, a large oval box occupies almost each cover, framing a large abstract motif carved and covered with calfskin in different bright colors" (Carnets, n°692), cover preserved, folder, case.
Remarquable exemplaire de ce livre majeur. Publié cette même année 1931 que "Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide" édité par Albert Skira, "Le Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu" est la première collaboration de Picasso avec le marchand et éditeur Ambroise Vollard. Note historique : En 1926, Ambroise Vollard commande à Picasso des illustrations pour le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu, formidable réflexion balzacienne sur la création picturale. L'artiste réalise quantité d'illustrations, de techniques et de formats divers, et Vollard sélectionne celles qu'il souhaite retenir pour son édition, conseillé par Blaise Cendrars. L'ouvrage, l'un des plus beaux illustrés par Picasso, comprend douze eaux-fortes originales de l'artiste, comme autant de variations du thème classique du peintre et de son modèle. Ces planches côtoient des reproductions gravées sur bois, de dessins tantôt abstraits, tantôt figuratifs, une diversité somme toute en parfaite symbiose avec le propos de Balzac. "Il est évident que [Picasso n'illustre pas] le déroulement scénique du conte, mais bien son contenu profond, et que ce sont les différents aspects de la relation de l'artiste au modèle qui ont retenu son intérêt. Ainsi voyons-nous le peintre regardant amoureusement sa femme peinte ; nous voyons, sous des angles divers, le peintre et son modèle séparés par le chevalet ; nous voyons, variation "picassienne" du thème, la lutte du taureau avec le cheval. Mais il y a aussi le peintre faisant le portrait d'une femme, tandis que celle-ci se trouve derrière lui et l'observe ; ce qui ajoute au vieux thème une dimension moderne, chère à Picasso, celle du rapport entre le spectateur et l'objet regardé : le regardant et le regardé". (References: Bloch 82-94; Geiser-Baer 123-1350; Goeppert/Cramer 20; The Artist & The Book 225; Skira 293; Rauch 53; Monod 763; The Artist & The Book in France p.339; From Manet to Hockney 92; Chapon p.281). - Informations et photographies supplémentaires sur demande personnalisée.
Reference : 25594
Picasso Book
UK, Tate Publishing, 2010 Paperback, 246x189mm, 224p, English edition . ISBN 978185437843913.
"The Essential Artists" series from Tate Publishing are authoritative reference guides to the world's major artists, providing the essential information on each artist's work and career in an attractive, accessible and affordable format. Pablo Ruiz Picasso was the most prolific artist in the history of Western art. Born in 1881 in Malaga, southern Spain, he spent almost all of his productive life in France, dying in Mougins in 1973. In more than seven decades as an artist, Picasso finished two thousand oil paintings alone, along with sculptures, ceramics, collages, prints, photographs, drawings and jewellery designs. This new book, drawing extensively on recent research, will provide an overview of the whole range of Picasso's art and career. Uniquely, it takes a thematic approach, examining Picasso and poetry, Picasso and war, Picasso and 'disfigurement' - the fragmentation of the human form in his work - Picasso and play and Picasso's ruminations on the figure of the artist. The introduction looks at Picasso himself, and the myths that surround him, concluding that it is impossible to disentangle the man from his legend. Separate sections include extracts from Picasso's poetry and writings and from critics both contemporary and historic. Functioning both as an introduction for those coming fresh to Picasso's work and bringing new insights to those already familiar with his career, this important and at the same time accessible book is one of the most significant additions to Picasso literature in recent years. Neil Cox is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the University of Essex. He curated an exhibition called A Picasso Bestiary in 1995 and is the co-author of "Marcel Duchamp and Cubism".
