Picasso, Eluard. Le Visage De La Paix. With One Original Lithograph, 1951

Paris, Editions Cercle d'Art, 1951. Poems by Paul Eluard Illustrated by Pablo Picasso. Complete book with one lithograph by Picasso in frontispiece, depicting the portrait of Fracoise Gilot fuse with the body of a dove bearing an olive branch. The book also includes 29 reproductions of Picasso drawings on the theme of peace in full page, with Eluard text on the bottom page. One of 150 copies in Roman numbers, printed on Johannot pur fil paper (total edition 2250). Spine weak with some splits inside between the text blocks, one reproduction with a stain on the page that doesn’t affect the illustration. Ref: Bloch 687 - Cramer 62
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