Description
1953
Text by Maurice Toesca
Éditions Flammarion, Paris
Dimensions : 33,6 x 26 cm
Six whimsical tales: "La naissance des papillons", "L'aiguille des secondes", "Naissance d'une princesse", "L'arbre qui marche", "Rencontre avec l'oiseau", "Le bois d'enfer", illustrated with 6 burin engravings by Picasso, (executed in April 1944) and 6 woodcut lettering by Pierre Bouchet.
In sheets, Japanese paper cover printed on the first cover, folder and case.
Prints :
- 25 on old Japon, with a suite of engravings and lettering on vergé d'Auvergne in an Arches vellum folder
- 75 on vellum of Montval
- 100 on Arches laid paper + XXV.
One of 100 copies, numbered 109, on Arches laid paper. Lacourière workshop
Condition : Edge of the folder damaged. Pages slightly yellowed but in good condition
© Succession Picasso 2026
