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PICASSO, Pablo. Le désir attrapé par la queue . Paris: by the author, 1941. 2° (315 x 238mm). Illustrated throughout. (Dampstain in the bottom margin affecting a few words in the bottom line of some leaves.) Original wrappers (staples detached, faint dampstain), early, possibly original glassine (worn and stained). Picasso's signature in pencil on the front blank.
PICASSO, Pablo. Le désir attrapé par la queue . Paris: by the author, 1941. 2° (315 x 238mm). Illustrated throughout. (Dampstain in the bottom margin affecting a few words in the bottom line of some leaves.) Original wrappers (staples detached, faint dampstain), early, possibly original glassine (worn and stained). Picasso's signature in pencil on the front blank. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY PICASSO. Published by the artist in small number of copies for friends and associates, and reproducing Picasso's manuscript and drawings for his first play, written during the first winter of the German occupation of Paris. Brassaï remarked that here Picasso 'gave free rein to dreams, obsessions, unavowed desires, comical connections between ideas and words, everyday banalities, the absurd. In it, Picasso's humor and inexhaustible spirit are displayed in their pure state.' (in Conversations with Picasso , Chicago, 1999, p. 200). The Germans authorities had forbidden Picasso to perform it, and it was at some risk that friends organized private performances in the apartment of Michel Leiris on 19 March 1944. Zanie de Campan took the leading female role, and other parts were read by Sartre, de Beauvoir, Raymond Queneau, and others, with Albert Camus directing. Gallimard published a trade edition in 1945. With: a program, with long introduction by Roland Penrose for the October 1950 production at London's Watergate Theatre.