PABLO PICASSO

Sueo y Mentira de Franco (B. 297-8; Ba. 615-6; Cramer 28)

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PABLO PICASSO
Picasso
Sueo y Mentira de Franco (B. 297-8; Ba. 615-6; Cramer 28)
the complete set of 18 etchings with aquatint, 1937, on 18 sheets of wove appliqu, trimmed and mounted in wove paper mats as issued, two signed in pencil, two numbered 38/150, title/justification page with the stamped signature, folded text sheet, on wove paper, generally in very good condition, original grey cloth-covered wrapper with wove paper dust cover with collaged facsimile text sheet (tears at the spine). 300 x 395 mm.

Lot Essay

Patrick Cramer records that Picasso authorized the issue of Sueo y Mentira de Franco in the present form on June 9, 1939, and that these sets were assembled by the Spanish Republican Government office attached to the Paris Embassy. The eighteen scenes from the two copper plates were at one point envisioned as postcards, but it seems that this idea was abandoned by Picasso. Very few of these cut and mounted sets seem to have survived.

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