Paul Eluard. - Lot 102

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Paul Eluard. - Lot 102
Paul Eluard. To Pablo Picasso. Geneva and Paris, Éditions des Trois Collines (Collection Les grands peintres par leurs amis), 1945. Large and strong in-8 square, paperback, filled cover, white half vellum publisher's folder, slipcase. Edition of 90 copies signed by the author: one of the 65 copies on Marais wove paper (#84). The book was first published in an ordinary edition, finished printing in December 1944. Gérald Cramer obtained permission from the publisher to make a deluxe edition of 90 copies with an original Picasso etching on the frontispiece, which was completed in September 1945. Large original etching signed by Picasso on the frontispiece. Tribute book by Paul Éluard to his friend Picasso with all the texts of the poet about the painter, from Les yeux fertiles (1936) to Dignes de vivre (1944). Beautiful copy preserved as published (Goeppert & Cramer, Pablo Picasso, catalogue raisonné des livres illustrés, no. 43).
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