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Les Métamorphoses: Trois têtes d'homme (Three Male Heads)
Illustrated by: Pablo Picasso (Spanish (worked in France), 1881–1973)
Author: Ovid (43 B.C.–17 or 18 A.D.)
Publisher: Albert Skira (Swiss, 1904–1973)
Printer: Louis Fort (French, 20th century)
Printer: Léon Pichon (French, 20th century)
Author: Ovid (43 B.C.–17 or 18 A.D.)
Publisher: Albert Skira (Swiss, 1904–1973)
Printer: Louis Fort (French, 20th century)
Printer: Léon Pichon (French, 20th century)
1931
Place of Publication: Lausanne, Switzerland
Medium/Technique
Folded leaf with etching and text (pp. 7-8) from the illustrated book with 30 etchings
Dimensions
Overall (without portfolio): 33 x 26.5 x 6 cm (13 x 10 7/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number63.753.2
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Lausanne: Albert Skira, 1931
Catalogue Raisonné
Artist & the Book 1860-1960, 224; Castleman, Century of Artists Books, p. 111; Goeppert, et al., Picasso Illustrated Books, 19
Description(Lausanne: Albert Skira, 1931) Folio, unbound; 394 pp. [4 ff.], plus 15 plates; original publisher's printed white wrappers, original cream-colored cardboard portfolio and slipcase.
Signed
Graphite verso of half title: "Picasso"
ProvenanceBy 1955, William Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; 1963, bequest of Allen to the MFA. (Accession date: June 19, 1963)
Copyright© 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.