Gongora / Pablo Picasso ; introduction by John Russell ; poetry by Luis de Gongora y Argote ; translated by Alan S. Trueblood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973.

Contributor:

Góngora y Argote, Luis de, 1561-1627.

Russell, John, 1919-2008.

Trueblood, Alan S.

Rippon, Laurie H.

Atha Tehon Thiras Art and Design Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973.

Picasso, Pablo.

Góngora y Argote, Luis de, 1561-1627--Illustrations.

Góngora y Argote, Luis de.

Góngora y Argote, Luis de, 1561-1627.

Women--Portraits.

Women.

Artists' books.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Portraits.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 40 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : George Braziller Inc., [1985]

Notes:

Originally published in a limited edition of 275 copies in Paris 1948.

"Published in the United States of America by George Braziller, Inc., in 1985."

"First Edition."

"The publisher is grateful to Maya Picasso-Widmaier for permission to use copy no. 227 of 'Gongora" for reproduction."

"Book is composed of twenty portraits (nineteen of them women) and twenty sonnets by the sixteenth century Spanish poet Luis de Gongora y Argote, which Picasso wrote out in hand and further embellished with flourishes, figures and sketches ... This edition of 'Gongora' reproduces the book to scale and in its original format, and includes an introduction by the renowned critic John Russell ..."

"Designed by Laurie H. Rippon."

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained with illustration from The poet reproaches the sun for obliging him to leave his lady.

Tehon Collection copy has [7] unused picture postcards laid in.

ISBN:

0807611336

9780807611333

OCLC:

12081067