Picasso illustrated book page

I found this page in some things my mom saved. It's about 10"X13". From googling I figured out that it is a Picasso illustrated page from the short story Le Chef d'oeuvre inconnu published in 1931 as a series of loose pages. I can find examples of other illustrations from this book and their values (all signed and independent of the text) but I can't figure out this one. There is no signature. I don't think it's valuable, but I'm not sure. And I'm trying to figure out what to do with it.

 

An AbeBooks link:
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30115176372&searchurl=bi=0&ds=30&bx=on&sortby=1&tn=le+chef+doeuvre+inconnu+not+balzac&recentlyadded=all&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title2

Don't know what edition yours would be from.

 

It's a couple of pages she tore out of a book because she like them. Why? One of those mysteries we discover after our loved ones move on.

 

I believe that this page was removed from the folio before she acquired it. The back looks like it might have been mounted or framed for display at some point, but she never had it in a frame while she owned it.

 

It has a dealer's code on the bottom along with a price.

Debora

 

Oh, thank you! I had no idea what those numbers meant. So it was purchased for $5?

 

5 in whatever currency she bought it in. If she bought it in the U.S., dollars then.

Debora

 

I'd assume your page would have some value as it's a rare and highly desirable book that was only published in an edition of 340. Of course, you don't have an etching but still think they'd be collector interest.

Debora

 

Here's page 21 from the volume in the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris' collection for comparison.

https://www.parismuseescollections....es/le-chef-d-oeuvre-inconnu#infos-principales

Debora

 

could well be that nobody recognised the future value of Picasso at the time and that they got separated from the book and sold seperately. Honoré de Balzac was the big yawn from schooldays then.