?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Trente-Deux Reproductions des Maquettes en Couleurs d'après les Originaux des Costumes & Décor par Picasso pour le Ballet "Le Tricorne."
Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1920.
Limited edition, No. 174 of 250 copies issued, small folio format portfolio containing thirty-two illustrations, all but one with pochoir coloring, loose as issued; each sheet with blind stamp; housed in publisher's printed paper chemise and portfolio covers resembling a composition notebook, with label on front board; wear to boards, signs of handling to chemise; cloth ties fragmentary; 11 x 8 in.
Picasso was involved with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes from 1917 to 1924, and his designs for the ballet Le Tricorne are considered his most successful. The ballet was composed by Martinez Sierra after a short story by Alarcon y Ariza and premiered in Paris in January of 1920. During his work on the set and costume designs, Picasso met Olga Khokhlova, the Russian ballerina he married in 1918. Publisher Paul Rosenberg was also Picasso's agent and neighbor in Rue de la Boétie during this period.
