Picasso

Pierrot Massine en Pierrot

rif. 1237971918 . Etching on zinc 1918 on Imperial Japan paper a particularly fine and rare impression signed and dedicated "Pour Galanis ses amis bien reconnaissants Max Jacob et Picasso" by the artist in pencil also signed by author Max Jacob in pencil inscribed '1er Epreuve' a fine impression of the rare unrecorded first state before the edition of 20 impressions as included as the frontispiece for Max Jacob's 'Le Phanérogame' printed by Les Presses Eugène Delâtre Paris with full margins sheet 25.5 x 16.8 cm. 10 x 6 5/8 in. One of only two copies mentioned in Baer outside of the numbered edition. The subscription announcement called for sixteen impressions on Imperial Japan paper including two signed impressions marked '0' and '00' and a further 30 impressions on Hollande paper. The print was ultimately issued mainly on Arches paper. Fourteen signed and numbered impressions are recorded together with the two author's copies on Japan of which this is one. Dedicated to Demetrios Galanis 1879-1966 a Greek artist and engraver who was a close friend of Picasso and Jacob. To help fund the printing of Max Jacob's Le Phanérogame Pablo Picasso contributed an etching of a Pierrot for the book's deluxe edition. Jacob dedicated the text to the poet André Salmon invoking memories of the Rue Ravignanthe site of the famed Bateau-Lavoir where Jacob Picasso Salmon and Guillaume Apollinaire forged their early artistic community. For Jacob the text distilled "the gaiety of that first youth which is the golden age of art". Though Picasso was deeply engaged with theatrical motifs and the Commedia dell'Arte in the spring of 1918 such iconography was hardly new to his practice. Harlequins acrobats and performers dominated his output during the years recalled by Jacoba period often categorized as his Circus or Rose Period when the group frequented the circus and identified closely with its marginalized itinerant performers. While the dancer Léonide Massine likely served as the immediate model for the pensive Pierrot the figure echoes Picasso's earlier saltimbanques and their intimate ties to his inner circle. Bloch 33; Baer 55; Cramer 5 1918 unknown

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