Corps Perdu
Pablo Picasso
Illustrated book
1950
39,5 x 28,7 cm
Aimé Césaire, Corps perdu, original engravings by Pablo Picasso, Paris, éditions Fragrance, 1950
An etching on the cover
An etching and drypoint
Ten aquatints
Twenty burin engravings
One of 23 copies on Vélin de Montval watermarked "Corps perdu" with a suite on old Japon paper
Catalog raisonné : Cramer 56
Succession Picasso 2024
Corps perdu brings together ten poems about the search for identity. Each poem is illustrated with two burins executed in March 1949, composed of ambiguous, hybrid beings fusing insects, animals, men and plants, in which the world of Wifredo Lam, well known to Picasso, resonates.
