190 - Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Joan Miró (1893–1983), Pierre Tal-Coat (1905–1985), Raoul Ubac (1910–1985), Pierre Pallut (1918–2015)

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Joan Miró (1893–1983), Pierre Tal-Coat (1905–1985), Raoul Ubac (1910–1985), Pierre Pallut (1918–2015) Derrière le Miroir Nos. 144–145–146, “Homage to Georges Braque,” May 1964 5 original lithographs: 1 black-and-white double-page spread by Picasso and 4 in color by Miró (“Blue Bird…”), Tal-Coat (“Bird and Its Shadow”), Ubac (“Plow”), and Pallut; with color reproductions after Braque (including 4 double-page spreads), drawings by Giacometti, Chagall, and Chillida, and photographs of Braque by Man Ray, Brassaï, Routhier, and Mariette Lachaud; 84 pages, loose-leaf in an illustrated cover (Braque, “Greek Head”), as published. Lithographs printed in the Maeght Éditeur workshops in Levallois. Maeght Éditeur, Paris, standard edition Signatures on the plates, as published Dimensions: + Sheet: 38 × 28 cm (15 × 11 in.) + Double-page plates: 38 × 56 cm (15 × 22 in.) Condition: Very good condition. Cover with a few slight marks in the margins; plates clean and crisp; original center fold. Unframed. References: Picasso: Mourlot 401; Bloch 1847; Cramer 124 Special issue published for the exhibition “Hommage à Braque” at the Galerie Maeght, one year after the painter’s death, featuring texts by Saint-John Perse, René Char, Giacometti, Francis Ponge, Heidegger, Jean Paulhan, Prévert, Kahnweiler, and Chagall.