Lithograph from 1949.
A copy from a limited edition of 16/64 (photocopy of the colophon is included).
Only 55 copies were designed for sale.
On hand-made Fabriano paper.
Dimensions of work: 32 x 25 cm
Publisher: The Noonday Press, New York.
Reference: Bloch 673; Mourlot 177
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Original lithograph from an edition of only 64 from a portfolio ""Elegy of Ihpetonga, Masks of Ashes"". A collaboration of Picasso with Yvan Goll that starts as follows
""Ihpetonga, which signifies “high cliff,”
was the name that the Canarsie Indians
gave to that part of Brooklyn which today
is known as Columbia Heights and which
dominates the port of New York.
There this poem was conceived.
Mannahatta was the Indian name of the
village that later become Manhattan,
the greater part of New York.
Lackawanna, an Indian name, designates
at once, a district, a river,
a railroad, and a fleet of tugs.""
The work is in Excellent condition.
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