Le goût du bonheur. Trois carnets d`atelier. 1970.
The portfolio comprising 71 (26 in colors) Lithographs, a signed etching and a text by Jean Marcenac as well a stitle leaf and imprint. Published by Éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris 1970.
Cramer Livres 148. With stamped number in imprint. One of 35 copies from the French de-luxe edition. On double sheets of wove paper by Arches (with watermark). Up to ca. 22 x 14 cm (8,6 x 5,5 in). Sheet: 32,5 x 25 cm (12,8 x 9,8 in).
Text and typography printed by Imprimerie Union, Paris. The lithographs printed by Dietz Officin Handpresse, Lengmoos. Loose sheets in original cloth case. The complete set.
This portfolio is a copy from the de-luxe edition with the signed etching "Painter and Easle" from 1970 on wove paper by BFK Rives (Baer 1919 B.b (of B.b). Bloch 2030). Printed by Atelier Crommelynck, Paris.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Baden-Württemberg (etching with collector stamp on verso, not in Lugt).

Pablo Picasso, who was convinced by the quality the printshop of Günther Dietz supplied, made three sketchbooks from 1964 available for this portfolio. Dietz reproduced the drawings in a specially developed printing method with the respective authentic color and paint materials like pencil, coal, ink and oil chalk and thus created lithographs of a remarkable color fastness and attention to detail. In his insightful preface Jean Marcenac interprets the drawings as personal notes by 83 year old about love and desire (cf. notes on Cramer Livres 148). [KH].