PICASSO 60 ANS DE GRAVURES (Berggruen & Cie)
1964
No. 123
Picasso / 60 ans de gravures / I / Eaux-fortes / Pointes sèches / Aquatintes / II / Lithographies / III / Gravures
sur bois / et Linoléum / IV / Affiches / Berggruen & Cie / 70, rue de l'Université-Paris-VII / Tél : 222-02-12 -
Adresse télégraphique : Bergart Paris / (1964)
8vo (8 11/16 x 4 9/16 in.) (220 x 115 mm). Wrappers with the linocut on the front cover and lettering on the front
and spine.
1 linocut in brown (8 1/4 x 4 9/16 in.) (210 x 115 mm) (Faune et chèvre), dated "4.12.59." in the plate, unsigned.
(An additional 50 impressions were printed on wide-margined paper, signed in pencil, and numbered from 1/50 to
50/50.)
Edition: [2000 copies.]
Printing: (February 18, 1964)
Imprimerie Union, Paris, for the text and typography.
Imprimerie Arnéra, Vallauris, for the linocut.
Collation:56 unnumbered leaves from 14 sheets
- 1 leaf with title recto and a note from the publisher verso
- 52 leaves with pages of text and reproductions
(1 inserted Canson laid leaves of different colors)
- 1 leaf with achevé d'imprimer recto and a list of posters verso
- 2 leaves with list of posters
Note: This was the third Berggruen catalogue devoted to Picasso (see No. 82) and was published on the
occasion of the exhibit "60 ans de gravures". In it are reproductions of 409 prints made between 1904 and 1963.
The cover is decorated with a linocut in brown, bearing the date December 4, 1959 (Bloch 949). It shows a goat
standing on its hind legs before a seated flute-player.
Berggruen was to publish two other brochures on works of Picasso, on the occasion of the artist's 85th
and 90th birthdays respectively : 85 gravures in 1966, and Hommage à Picasso : 90 gravures in 1971. In 1981
appeared Gouaches, lavis et dessins 1966-1972, with a preface by Pierre Daix. Prior to that, in 1976, Berggruen
had published a book entitled Pour Eugenia, with a preface by Douglas Cooper. In this book there are
reproductions of 24 previously unpublished drawings done in 1918, at Biarritz, for Eugenia Errazuriz.