Linogravures enrichi d'un dessin original signé. - Céramiques

PICASSO Pablo
Linogravures [Linocuts]
With an original signed drawing
éditions Cercle d'art, Paris 1962, book: 39 x 32,5 cm,
drawing: 24,5 x 23 cm, publisher's cloth
with custom slipcase
First edition.
Publisher's Bradel beige cloth, with dust jacket (a little light spotting and rubbing).
With 45 linocuts by the artist.
An original drawing by Pablo Picasso in black ink of a faun's head, with an autograph inscription signed and dated by the artist to “Sergueï, son ami Picasso le 4.5.57” [Sergey, his friend Picasso], on a leaf laid down on the endpaper. It's very likely that the drawing was for the choreographer Serge Lifar (Sergey Mihailovitch Lifar, 1904-1986) for whom Picasso designed costumes and sets.
Discreet repairs to corners of leaf with drawing.
Added: the volume Céramiques from Pablo Picasso published by Albert Skira in 1948, including an autograph colorful letter from Pablo Picasso, signed and dated, to the same Sergueï which should have been topped by a drawing, cut out from the copy probably in order to be framed.
An exceptional copy with an original drawing signed by Pablo Picasso.
$ 18 500