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Pablo Picasso. Non vouloir (Not to Want)

Pablo Picasso

Non vouloir (Not to Want)

Published 1942; rebound c. 1942–55

Book with four engraving and drypoints (frontispieces) and four line blocks; letterpress text; supplementary suite of twenty-seven line blocks, all color variants of the four that accompany the text, seven made by superimposing the blocks in various color combinations; ink inscription and crayon drawing by Picasso on half title. Bespoke red leather rebinding by F. Saulnier for Hugnet, with blind and gold tooling

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Author Georges Hugnet
Medium Book with four engraving and drypoints (frontispieces) and four line blocks; letterpress text; supplementary suite of twenty-seven line blocks, all color variants of the four that accompany the text, seven made by superimposing the blocks in various color combinations; ink inscription and crayon drawing by Picasso on half title. Bespoke red leather rebinding by F. Saulnier for Hugnet, with blind and gold tooling
Dimensions Pages: 7 3/8 × 5 5/16 in. (18.7 × 13.5 cm); Book (closed): 7 5/8 × 5 3/4 × 13/16 in. (19.4 × 14.6 × 2 cm)
Publisher Éditions Jeanne Bucher, Paris
Printer L'Imprimerie Grou-Radenez, Paris , Paris (text and line blocks), Atelier Roger Lacourière, Paris (plates)
Edition 430. Four numbered I–IV (not mentioned on the colophon) on Chine paper, reserved for the author, artist, dedicatee, and printer, with four frontispieces, a supplementary suite of line blocks printed in color variants and in superimposed color combinations, and various additional materials; twenty numbered 1–20 and six author’s copies numbered I–VI, with one frontispiece and a supplementary suite, some with an additional suite; 400 numbered 21–420, without the frontispiece; edition subsets on different papers. This copy, Hugnet’s author’s copy, no. I/IV, on Chine paper
Credit Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Object number 510.2022
Department Drawings and Prints

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Spanish, 1881–1973 1252 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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