{"product_id":"les-metamorphoses","title":"Les Métamorphoses","description":"The exceptional edition, in only 145 copies, was the first publication of the new-born  Skira, and was soon followed by the  Poems  of Mallarmé with 29 original etchings by  Henri Matisse and  Les Chants de Maldoror  illustrated by Salvador Dalí with 42 etchings. For the 90th anniversary of the publishing house, Skira issued an anastatic copy of the  work, slightly different in format and in agreement with the Picasso Estate.  The volume boasts 412 pages including the etchings (15) both in and outside the text  (15). The facsimile is perfect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The volume is in 24 x 30.5 cm format. It is a hardcover edition with paper foil  stamping, just like the first edition in 1931. The work is contained in a box that, with  the  Métamorphoses , also bears an illustrated insert in English narrating the birth and  history of this legendary volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ovid's  Métamorphoses  in 11,995 verses and 15 books gather and re-elaborate over 250  Greek myths. It has been called an \"encyclopaedia of classical mythology\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Picasso's etchings out of the text, focused on 15 myths, are of rare uniformity, in a style  with clean edges and discrete eroticism. Instead, the etchings found at the start of the  chapters do not relate to the text and portray faces, nude studies and a delightful litotes  of the female body (27th etching).","brand":"Skira Editore S.p.A","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42665613328420,"sku":"9788857239491","price":485.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9788857239491.jpg?v=1773272118","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/les-metamorphoses","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}