LOT 31 Aimé Césaire, Corps Perdu, Editions Fragrance, Paris, 1950 Pablo Picasso(Spanish, 1881-1973)
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Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Aimé Césaire, Corps Perdu, Editions Fragrance, Paris, 1950 (Cramer Books 56; Bloch 632-663; Baer 840-871) The complete set of two unsigned etchings (one with drypoint), ten aquatints, and twenty engravings with burin, 1950, on Montval watermarked Corps Perdu, title page, justification, text in French and table of contents, signed in pencil by the artist and the author on the justification, copy 121 of 207 (there were also 12 hors commerce), the full sheets, loose (as issued), in very good condition, within folded paper wrappers with the title design, paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine and matching slipcaseSheet 390 x 280mm.Folio 410 x 300 mm.
|For his illustrations to Aimé Césaire Corps Perdu, Picasso makes allusions to Wilfredo Lam and the magical surrealism of the Cuban painter. Perhaps those allusions were inspired by the shared evocations to their countries and the exaltation of the tropics in Césaire's poetry and Lam's paintings. Césaire said of Lam that they were "instantly taken in by each other" and Lam saw themselves as "two brother artists" while the three of them, including Picasso, would quite happily said they had "found each other." "Crowned Poet," the frontispiece, was used for the poster for the first Congress of Black Writers and Artists, organised by Présence africaine at the Sorbonne in 1956. It is a symbolic reference to Césaire himself.
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