Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Fernand Crommelynck (1886-1970)
Le cocu magnifique
Paris : Éditions de l'Atelier Crommelynck, 1968
Quarto oblong (28.7 × 38 cm), loose sheets, parchment binding, publisher's red chagrin slipcase.
First edition.
Illustration : 12 etchings and aquatints out of text by Pablo Picasso.
From an edition at 200 copies. One of the 180 copies Rives wove paper, signed by the author and the artist (n°134).
Composed in 1921 by Fernand Crommelynck, this play in 3 acts evokes in the tone of a farce the problems related to jealousy.
Bibliography: P. Cramer, Pablo Picasso. Illustrated books, n°140.
