Portfolio with complete text and 4 drypoints, 1947. 334x255 mm; 131/4x101/8 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.
One of 250 numbered copies. Numbered 73 on the justification page. Printed by Lacourière, Paris. Published by Éditions Albor, Paris and Barcelona. Original wood portfolio folder. Pale browning on the sheet edges and time stain on the printed paper wrappers. Superb impressions of the prints.
In this portfolio, Picasso (1881-1973) created 4 powerfully illustrative images using a significant economy of line. Rembrandt excelled using the same technique occasionally; with only a handful of lines he suggested a distant wooded landscape in "The Baptism of the Eunuch" (see lot 17), sketched an arched doorway and a landscape in "Three Oriental Figures (Jacob and Laban ?)" (see lot 55) and rendered the loosely hanging garments on the "Beggar in a High Cap, Standing and Leaning on a Stick" (see lot 46). Bloch 468-71; Bloch Books 44.
