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Pablo Picasso. Non vouloir (Not to Want)

Pablo Picasso

Non vouloir (Not to Want)

1942

Book with one engraving and drypoints (frontispiece); four prints from line blocks with added engraving, printed in black, accompanying the letterpress text; supplementary suite of three engraving and drypoints (color variants of the frontispiece) and nineteen line-block prints (sixteen made by printing the same four blocks in four color variants: turquoise, yellow, red, and green; three made by printing the same four blocks in various superimposed color combinations); rebound with Hugnet’s handwritten manuscript of the text in red ink (fifty-seven leaves); publisher’s original tan paper cover. Bespoke rebinding and slipcase by F. Saulnier. Rebinding: covers of full red leather over boards; blind tooling around raised bands and gold-tooled title on spine; red and white silk doublures and red endpapers; red-and-black silk endbands; multicolor silk bookmark.

MoMA, Floor 3, 3 South The Edward Steichen Galleries
Author Georges Hugnet
Publisher Éditions Jeanne Bucher, Paris
Medium Book with one engraving and drypoints (frontispiece); four prints from line blocks with added engraving, printed in black, accompanying the letterpress text; supplementary suite of three engraving and drypoints (color variants of the frontispiece) and nineteen line-block prints (sixteen made by printing the same four blocks in four color variants: turquoise, yellow, red, and green; three made by printing the same four blocks in various superimposed color combinations); rebound with Hugnet’s handwritten manuscript of the text in red ink (fifty-seven leaves); publisher’s original tan paper cover. Bespoke rebinding and slipcase by F. Saulnier. Rebinding: covers of full red leather over boards; blind tooling around raised bands and gold-tooled title on spine; red and white silk doublures and red endpapers; red-and-black silk endbands; multicolor silk bookmark.
Dimensions irreg. page: 7 1/2 x 5 7/16" (19 x 13.8 cm); prints: various dimensions.
Book designer [rebinding] F. Saulnier
Printer of plates Atelier Roger Lacourière, Paris
Printer of text L'Imprimerie Grou-Radenez, Paris
Edition 430 (20 numbered 1-20 on Arches with supplementary engraving, 2 suites, and 1 superimposed print; 400 numbered 21-420 on wove paper; 6 numbered I-VI on Arches with supplementary engraving, 2 suites, and 2 superimposed prints; 4 H.C. numbered I/IV-IV/IV on China with supplementary engraving and 3 variants, suite, and 3 superimposed prints, reserved for author, artist, dédicataire, and printer)
Credit The Louis E. Stern Collection
Object number 977.1964.1-27
Department Drawings and Prints

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Spanish, 1881–1973 1257 works online

With these words, Picasso shed light on two central principles of his artistic production over nearly 80 years: his openness to a diverse range of styles, subject matters, and mediums, and his resistance to the notion that change in art necessarily corresponds to improvement or progress.

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