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Hommage à Picasso

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Hommage à Picasso
Hommage à Picasso
Hommage à Picasso

Hommage à Picasso

Date1973-74
Artwork TypePortfolio Summary
Catalogue NumberPOR 27
Ownershipportfolio summary - see individual publications for ownership
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Hommage à Picasso/Serial 1[-5]/Edited by Wieland Schmied/Prefaced by the 'Conversations with Picasso'/by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler/Propylaen Verlag/[or] Panthéon Presse S.A., Agno/[1973-4]

Published in a series of five volumes between August 1973 and December 1974: Volume 1 contains an introduction to the series by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, the Parisian publisher and art dealer who represented Picasso from 1907 until the artist's death, and ten prints; Volume 2 contains twelve prints; Volume 3, eleven prints; Volume 4 contains CGM 282 and ten prints, one each by Max Bill, Jim Dine, Allen Jones, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Edouard Pignon, Emil Schumacher, Hervé Télémaque, Joe Tilson and Walasse Ting; Volume 5 contains fourteen prints. A sixth volume containing eleven prints by American artists was added in December 1975.

Volume 4

620 x 820mm: 4 unnumbered pages in 2 sheets of plastic-coated paper with CGM 282 on T.H. Saunders and nine other prints on various papers, each in a leaf of plastic-coated paper within a red cloth-covered portfolio printed in black on the front, with a red cloth-covered tube containing the prints by Allen Jones and Joe Tilson. A metal plaque with the album number and the names of the artists is glued to the spine. There is a black leather protective cover. All five volumes are contained in a wooden box with the title and publisher's name on the top.

p.[1] title

p.[2] blank

p.[3] contents, imprint, number

p.[4] blank

pls.[1-4] prints

pl.[5] CGM 282

pls.[6-11] prints

The edition of 120 copies, numbered on p.[3], comprises:

45 numbered 1/90 to 45/90 published by Propyläen Verlag

45 numbered 46/90 to 90/90 published by Panthéon Presse S.A.

30 hors commerce copies numbered I/XXX to XXX/XXX, with CGM 282 similarly numbered and signed and dated 73 in pencil by the artist.

Text printed by Adolf Fürst & Sohn, Berlin.

CGM 282 was printed by Curwen Prints Ltd, London.

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