"Chronique des Temps héroïques", Paris 1956. Signed Picassoin the

"Chronique des Temps héroïques", Paris 1956. First edition, written between 1936 and 1937 and published posthumously for Max Jacob, who died in 1944 in the Drancy internment camp. Illustrated with a total of 30 prints; three original lithographs for the cover, frontispiece and cabinet, three etchings as inserts, and 24 woodcuts by Georges Aubert based on original ink drawings by Picasso. Signed Picasso in the colophon. Printed in 170 copies on Vergé de Montval paper; of which 20 with Roman numerals. This is copy number VII. Book size 26 x 19 x 4 cm.

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