May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 134

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
PICASSO, PABLO. Guernica. 24-page illustrated introduction and commentary by Marie-Laure Bernadac. 42 color facsimiles of the studies by Picasso on paper, each mounted within 31 folio-sized mats, some images matted singly, other mats containing two images. Elephant folio, contents loose as issued within a clamshell box lettered in white and with a color facsimile cover label of the wailing woman. New York: Abrams, 1990
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fine copy of the first english language edition and the first appearance of the reunion of Picasso's preliminary sketches on paper for Guernica, printed by the Akademische Druck und Verlagsanstalt in Graz, Austria. With thoughtful commentary by Bernadac, Curator of the Picasso Museum, Paris. One of 1000 unnumbered copies.