Edition Cercle dÂ’Art, Paris, 1962. 1st French edition. Text by Douglas Cooper. In the original cloth binding decorated with Picasso's drawing and signature guarded in the original cloth slipcase. One of 125 numbered copies in Velin dÂ’Arches, includes 165 illustrations reproducing drawings and paintings from PicassoÂ’s series Les Dejeuners (93 drawings from 5 notebooks, 45 separate drawings and 27 canvases) many of the lithographic reproductions are in colors, several in double page. The series was inspired by Manet’s painting Le Dejeune sur l’Herbe. This lot includes a suite of prints with the lithographic reproductions after Picasso drawings between 1959 and 1961. ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH MISSED.Loose in the original protective stiff board folder in beige cloth with brown title. The suite is complete of 7 prints plus several others in different sizes

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