'Carmen', 1949
An original etching in burin, from an unnumbered edition of 289 printed by Atelier Roger Lacourière, Paris. Printed on Montval wove paper, to illustrate an 1845 novella by Prosper Mérimée.
31 x 24cm
Georges Bloch, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié, Volume I, 1904-1967, Berne, 1968 (Bl.531-568).
Geiser & Baer, Picasso Peintre-graveur, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé, Volume IV, 1946-1958, Berne, 1988 (B.797-838).
Patrick Cramer, Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books Catalogue Raisonné, Geneva, 1983 (CR.52).