"Il était une petite pie": 7 chansons et 3 chansons pour Hyacinthe
Artist: Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983)
Publisher: Édition Jeanne Bucher, Paris, 1928
Printer: Saudé, Paris
Author: Lise Hirtz (French, 1898-1980)
Date: 1928
Dimensions:
Chemise: H: 13 7/16 in. (342 mm); W: 10 5/16 in. (262 mm); Depth: 3/8 in. (9 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 12 5/8 in. (321 mm); W: 9 13/16 in. (249 mm).
Medium: Original prints: 8 pochoirs prints after Miró gouaches, plus 1 image stamped and pochoir colored on the front cover.
Text: letterpress (colophon and title page) and facsimile of original handwriting.
Paper: Arches cream wove paper, watermarked.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number: 1984.771
Label Text:Lise Hirtz was a French writer associated, like Joan Miró, with the Surrealist movement. Her seemingly childish but morbid verses, published here in her own ornate handwriting, are paralleled by Miró's drawings in a spare, deceptively casual style. The title poem shown here reads: "There once was a little magpie/ Who was always in despair/ And always in her bed./ She was all black/ But very pretty all the same./ She went out for a ride/ A ride on mouseback/ Came back mortally ill/ And died in her bed."
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