Picasso, Pablo, The Magnificent Cuckold, 1968

Illustrated book

1968

29 x 39.5 cm

Fernand Crommelynck, Le Cocu magnifique, original engravings by Pablo Picasso, Paris, Editions de l’Atelier Crommelynck, 1968

Seven etchings

Four aquatints and etchings

An aquatint, drypoint and etching; all dated 1966 on the copper plate, unsigned.

Justified copy signed by the artist

Catalog raisonné: Cramer 140

Succession Picasso 2025

Le Cocu magnifique is a play written in 1920 by playwright Fernand Crommelynck, father of Aldo, Piero and Milan Crommelynck, engravers and printers, trained in Roger Lacourière’s workshop and close collaborators of Picasso from 1963 when they set up their studio in Mougins. Picasso populates the illustration of Le Cocu magnifique with figures from his personal mythology.