Pirosmanachvili 1914
Picasso, Pablo. Zdanevitch, Ilia (Iliazd)
Paris. Le Degré Quarante et Un. 1972
From the edition limited to 78 copies on japon ancien, signed on the justification by Iliazd in pencil and with Picasso's signed drypoint frontispiece.
'In 1912, the brothers Kyril and Ilia Zdanevitch and their friend, Michel Ledentu, all three fervent Futurists, met the painter Niko Pirosmanachvili. Shocked by the misery in which the artist lived and eager to draw attention to his exceptional talents, Ilia published a sort of manifesto about Pirosmanachvili's art in a local paper in 1914. In the summer of 1971, nearly 60 years after their meeting, Iliazd decided to reprint this article as a loyal tribute to his long unrecognised friend ... Iliazd prepared a small copperplate hoping that Picasso would consent to engrave a frontispiece. On February 21, 1972 he went to see Picasso at Mougins, and the artist made for him a remarkable, idealized portrait of the Georgian painter in drypoint .' (Cramer).
[Cramer 154].
'In 1912, the brothers Kyril and Ilia Zdanevitch and their friend, Michel Ledentu, all three fervent Futurists, met the painter Niko Pirosmanachvili. Shocked by the misery in which the artist lived and eager to draw attention to his exceptional talents, Ilia published a sort of manifesto about Pirosmanachvili's art in a local paper in 1914. In the summer of 1971, nearly 60 years after their meeting, Iliazd decided to reprint this article as a loyal tribute to his long unrecognised friend ... Iliazd prepared a small copperplate hoping that Picasso would consent to engrave a frontispiece. On February 21, 1972 he went to see Picasso at Mougins, and the artist made for him a remarkable, idealized portrait of the Georgian painter in drypoint .' (Cramer).
[Cramer 154].
[9 unnumbered bifolia]. Small folio. (330 x 245 mm). Illustrated with original drypoint frontispiece by Picasso, signed in pencil. Loose as issued in arches wove wrappers, additional marbled parchment wrapper and additional printed papier de boucher dust-jacket and original coarse-weave cloth chemise with Iliazd's monogram to spine and matching slipcase.
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