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Eins von 68 Exemplaren (Gesamtauflage 78). – Druckvermerk vom Verfasser, die Radierung vom Künstler signiert. – Auf leicht getöntem Alt-Japan. – Das Buch ist eine Hommage für den georgischen Futuristen Niko Pirosmanachvili (1862–1918), dessen Lebensumstände Ilia Zdanevitch 1914 zu einem Artikel in einer lokalen Zeitung bewegten. Fast 70 Jahre später edierte er eine erweiterte Neuausgabe in französischer Übersetzung von Andrée Robel und André de Bouchet. – Die Japanblätter in drei leere Doppelblätter Velin d’arches eingelegt, der Pergamentumschlag blieb, entgegen dem etwas kleinerformatigeren Umschlag aus gelbem Packpapier, unbedruckt. Die Leinenchemise mit Iliazds Verlagssignet auf dem Rücken. – »Iliazd prepared a small copperplate hoping that Picasso would consent to engrave a frontispiece for Pirosmanachvili 1914, in homage to the ›Georgian Douanier Rousseau‹ about whom Iliazd had often spoken. At Christmas, 1971 Iliazd fell ill – so ill, in fact, that he had to be hospitalized in Cannes on the order of Picasso’s doctor. Two months later, to the great surprise of everyone – including his doctors – Iliazd recovered. On February 21, 1972 he went to see Picasso at Mougins, and the artist – without doubt moved by his friend’s brush with death – made for him a remarkable, idealized portrait of the Georgian painter in drypoint. During the summer of 1972, Iliazd corrected and improved the translated text of his article. Then, in the fall, he attended to the printing, which was completed on December 13. Iliazd made sure that the printed surface of the pages on which the text appeared did not exceed the format of Picasso’s engraving. At Christmas Iliazd called on Picasso, who signed all 78 impressions of the drypoint during the visit. In April, 1973 Iliazd spent a few days at Golfe-Juan, and while there he arranged to see Picasso on April 9. On Sunday morning, April 8, Picasso suddenly died. Iliazd, who was to survive him by two years, never got over the death of his old friend.« (Goeppert/Cramer).
MoMA Iliazd 1987, 26. – Goeppert/Cramer 154. – Bloch 2015, Livres 152. – LC 2001 94. – Monod 6250. – Chapon, p. 296
33,0 : 23,5 cm. [36] Seiten. – Schuber teils gebräunt. – Leichte Stockflecken im Unterrand.
english description:
Includes a signed drypoint etching. Loose double-page spreads in the original parchment wrapper, with dust jacket, original slipcase, and outer slipcase.
One of 68 copies (total edition of 78). – Imprint by the author; the etching signed by the artist. – Printed on lightly tinted antique Japanese paper. – The book is a tribute to the Georgian futurist Niko Pirosmanachvili
Outer slipcase partly browned. – Small and faint foxings in the buttoms.
