
Author: Honore de Balzac
Title: Le Pere Goriot
Novel: With an Original Lithograph frontispiece by Pablo Picasso, 11/251952, signed by the artist in the stone (Not by hand) and dated)
Publisher: Andre Sauret, Editeur, Paris 1952
Printed by : Mourlot Freres, Paris
Edition: 300 examples on Grand Velin D’Arches
3000 impressions on Velin Papeteries Arches - 100 hors commerce impressions (This book: 280)
Note: Andre Sauret of the Imprimerie Nationale published important collections of novels in bibliophile editions. He was also the publisher of Fernand Mourlot’s catalogue “Picasso Lithographs”,
References:
George Bloch “Tome 1, Picasso Catalogue de l’oeuvre grave et lithographie (1904 - 1967) No: 714
The Picasso Project: The Lithographic Work, Volume II 1949-1969 - Number 216
Mourlot Sale, 2003 No 215
Cramer 65