PICASSO (Pablo) El entierro del Conde de Orgaz.... Lot 94

PICASSO (Pablo) El entierro del Conde de Orgaz. Illustrated with 12 etchings by the artist. 1 vol. gd in-folio oblong (37,5x47) in ff. in filled, printed and illustrated folder, cardboard box covered with parchment and green cloth inside. Barcelona Gustavo Gili and Ediciones de La Cometa 25.10.1969. Printed at 263 numbered copies on Romani watermarked vellum after a drawing by Picasso, this one of the 10 copies of the first edition (No 11) after the first two copies comprising 1 suite of the 12 etchings on Japon Impérial, 1 suite of the 15 engravings of the striped plates and the 3 aquatints on Arches vellum reserved for the first copies. The proof of the edition is signed in pencil by PICASSO. The work is enriched, in a separate folder, with 1 engraving in burin dated June 9, 1939 signed in pencil by Picasso and justified 11/263 in large margins, with a Spanish text " Trozo de almibar " " morceau de sirop ". Another folder containing a printed facsimile of Picasso's manuscript, written in colored pencil (1957-1958), is enclosed. This folder is decorated with a reproduction of a wash drawing of 23.4.1969 referring to the "Ediciones de la Cometa" ("of the kite"). "El Entierro del Conde de Orgaz" [The Burial of the Count of Orgaz], a masterpiece by the Spanish painter El Greco, was painted around 1586 for the church of San Tomé in Toledo. Picasso had admired this painter in his youth. From 1957 to 1959, he wrote a dramatic poem named after El Greco's work. Ten years later, Picasso proposed to Gustavo Gilli, a publisher in Barcelona, to publish this text which he illustrated with 15 engravings (including 3 aquatints, reserved for the first copies, including ours). Stains of old humidity on the slipcase and crack at the corner of one corner. Ref : Cramer n° 146