§ PABLO PICASSO (SPANISH 1881-1973) MAN IN HAT, 1914 Etching, ed. 470, with printed artwork details verso, published in the 1947 edition of Du Cubisme by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinter (image size 6.5cm x 5.5cm (2.5in x 2in)) Footnote: Provenance: Purchased at Phillips, London, 19th and 20th Century Prints, 5 December 1983, Lot 50. Literature: Bloch 29; Geiser 42; Goeppert and Cramer 46. Exhibited: University of East Anglia, Norwich, Picasso: Sixty Years of Printmaking – an exhibition from the British Museum and other British Collections 12 October – 18 December 1993; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Picasso on Paper, 14 July – 23 September 2007, cat.14, repr. Colour p.43; This etching was made in 1914, but was not printed at that time. In 1947, artists Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger decided to publish a new, deluxe edition of their celebrated 1912 book, Du Cubisme and asked friends to provide illustrations. Etchings were provided by Duchamp, Laurencin, Picadia, Villon and Picasso. ‘In 1947 the reputation of the book was undisputed and the Compagnie Francaise des Arts Graphiques undertook to publish a new edition (they were encouraged perhaps by the success of the retrospective Le Cubisme 1911-1918 held at the Galerie de France in May 1945). The new edition contained a preface by Gleizes, an appendix entitled ‘1912-1946’ by Metzinger and 7 original engravings by Picasso, Metzinger, Laurencin, Gleizes, Picabia, Villon and Duchamp, as well as 4 engravings after Derain, Braque, Leger and Gris. Picasso’s contribution to the book was an early copperplate etching which dated from the time he had illustrated Max Jacob’s Le Siège de Jerusalem. This was L’homme au Chapeau, of which only 3 impressions had been printed by Louis Fort in 1930’ (Goeppert and Cramer, p.128). We would like to thank Patrick Elliott for his assistance in cataloguing the current work.