The Song of the Dead (Le chant des morts)
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish (active France), 1881-1973)
Publisher: Éditions Verve, Paris, 1948 (Tériade)
Printer: lithographs: Mourlot Frères, [Paris]
text: Draeger Frères, [Paris]
Author: Pierre Reverdy (French, 1889-1960)
Date: 1948
Dimensions:
box: 18 1/8 x 14 x 1 7/8 in. (460 x 356 x 48mm)
book: 16 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. (425 x 324mm)
page: 16 5/8 x 12 5/8 in. (422 x 321mm)
Medium: Original prints: 125 lithographs in orange (including covers)
Text: lithographed, letterpress
Paper: Arches cream wove paper
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Museum Purchase
Object number: 1979.33
Label Text:Although Picasso had known the Greek-born publisher Teriade for years throuh his associations with the noted art magazines 'Cahiers d'art', 'Minotaure', and 'Verve', LE CHANT DE MORTS was tobe their only illustrated book collaboreation. For this text, Picasso decided to creat a new type of illustration. Similar in principle to medieval illuminated manuscripts, Picasso made large calligraphic strokes, printed in vibrant orange, to interact with the black hand-written text on each page. Themarkings thus endowed the pages with a ritual quality.
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