Pablo Picasso, Jaime Sabartés: – Picasso: Les Ménines et la vie (Cercle d’Art, Paris), 1958

jaime Sabartés — Picasso : Les Ménines et la vie (Cercle d’Art, Paris) Éditions Ce rcle d’Art, Paris, 1958 (first edition). Text by Jaime Sabartés (transl. Alfred Rosset) Illustrated art book; boards and spine printed on vélin with a colour composition by Picasso (printed by Mourlot Frères), under rhodoïd jacket; interior with 58 tipped-in colour plates reproducing Picasso’s 1957 Las Meninas series after Velázquez (one folding), printed by Draeger Frères. French text. Hardcover (cartonnage). Signed / numbered: Standard trade edition, unnumbered Dimensions: 33 × 25.5 cm (13 × 10 in.) Pages: 135–136 pp.; 58 colour plates Condition: Good — interior very clean; cover toned/yellowed; a defect to the lower-right corner of the spine. Complete. Description: First edition of Sabartés’s study of Picasso’s celebrated Las Meninas variations (58 canvases painted in 1957 after Velázquez), with Picasso’s own colour composition on the covers and 58 fine tipped-in plates by Draeger.