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PICASSO (PABLO) ILIAZD, Pseudonym of ILIA ZDANEVICH. Pismo [in Russian], NUMBER 46 OF 50 COPIES "sur Japon ancien", from an overall edition of 66 copies, SIGNED BY PICASSO and the author on the colophon leaf, Paris, Latitud curanta y uno, [1948] image 1
PICASSO (PABLO) ILIAZD, Pseudonym of ILIA ZDANEVICH. Pismo [in Russian], NUMBER 46 OF 50 COPIES "sur Japon ancien", from an overall edition of 66 copies, SIGNED BY PICASSO and the author on the colophon leaf, Paris, Latitud curanta y uno, [1948] image 2
PICASSO (PABLO) ILIAZD, Pseudonym of ILIA ZDANEVICH. Pismo [in Russian], NUMBER 46 OF 50 COPIES "sur Japon ancien", from an overall edition of 66 copies, SIGNED BY PICASSO and the author on the colophon leaf, Paris, Latitud curanta y uno, [1948] image 3
PICASSO (PABLO) ILIAZD, Pseudonym of ILIA ZDANEVICH. Pismo [in Russian], NUMBER 46 OF 50 COPIES "sur Japon ancien", from an overall edition of 66 copies, SIGNED BY PICASSO and the author on the colophon leaf, Paris, Latitud curanta y uno, [1948] image 4
PICASSO (PABLO) ILIAZD, Pseudonym of ILIA ZDANEVICH. Pismo [in Russian], NUMBER 46 OF 50 COPIES "sur Japon ancien", from an overall edition of 66 copies, SIGNED BY PICASSO and the author on the colophon leaf, Paris, Latitud curanta y uno, [1948] image 5
PICASSO (PABLO) ILIAZD, Pseudonym of ILIA ZDANEVICH. Pismo [in Russian], NUMBER 46 OF 50 COPIES "sur Japon ancien", from an overall edition of 66 copies, SIGNED BY PICASSO and the author on the colophon leaf, Paris, Latitud curanta y uno, [1948] image 6
PICASSO (PABLO) ILIAZD, Pseudonym of ILIA ZDANEVICH. Pismo [in Russian], NUMBER 46 OF 50 COPIES "sur Japon ancien", from an overall edition of 66 copies, SIGNED BY PICASSO and the author on the colophon leaf, Paris, Latitud curanta y uno, [1948] image 7
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PICASSO (PABLO)
ILIAZD, Pseudonym of ILIA ZDANEVICH. Pismo [in Russian], NUMBER 46 OF 50 COPIES "sur Japon ancien", from an overall edition of 66 copies, SIGNED BY PICASSO and the author on the colophon leaf, Paris, Latitud curanta y uno, [1948]

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PICASSO (PABLO)

ILIAZD, Pseudonym of ILIA ZDANEVICH. Pismo [in Russian], NUMBER 46 OF 50 COPIES "sur Japon ancien", from an overall edition of 66 copies, SIGNED BY PICASSO and the author on the colophon leaf, 6 etchings or engravings (including pictorial title) by Picasso, tissue guards, paper toning and some offsetting to endpapers and blank leaves but contents clean, loose as issued in parchment wrappers (the title etching repeated on the upper cover) with card insert, original additional protective paper wrappers with title printed on upper cover, stiff parchment envelope [Bloch 462-467; Baer 784-788; Cramer Books 48], folio (378 x 250mm.), Paris, Latitud curanta y uno, [1948]

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With six original etchings and engravings by Picasso, Pismo is the second collaboration between the artist and the Russian poet and typographer, Iliazd.

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