La Maigre
Pablo Picasso
1952
Illustrated book
Vol. 43 x 26 cm.
In sheets, filled parchment illustrated with a drypoint, Arches vellum cover, parchment envelope.
Text by Adrian de Monluc illustrated with 10 original drypoints (including one for the cover).
One of 52 copies on old China.
Published by Le Degré 41, (Iliazd), Paris.
Catalog raisonné : Cramer 63.
Succession Picasso 2024
From its original title A très déliée, très menue et très maigre Demoiselle, La Maigre is a text gleaned by Iliazd from a bookseller. The author in 1630 was Guillaume de Vaux, whom Iliazd recognized as Adrian de Monluc. After reading the text, Picasso enthusiastically executed the ten drypoints, completed in mid-April 1951.
