Hemp Neckties (Cravates de chanvre)
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish (active France), 1881-1973)
Publisher: Éditions nord-sud, Paris, 1922
Printer: l’Imprimerie Birault, Paris
Author: Pierre Reverdy (French, 1889-1960)
Date: 1922
Dimensions:
Book: H: 9 5/16 in. (236 mm); W: 6 5/8 in. (168 mm); Depth: 1/4 in. (7 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 9 in. (229 mm); W: 6 3/8 in. (162 mm).
Sheet: H: 4 5/8 in. (118 mm); W: 3 1/2 in. (89 mm).
Medium: Original print: etching on white wove paper.
Text: letterpress in black with red on white wove paper.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss in honor of Barbara K. Sutherland
Object number: 1984.876
Label Text:The frontispiece is a portrait of the poet Reverdy, whom Picasso had known from his first years in Paris. The book's title refers to the rope around the necks of those to be hanged
Not on view
In Collection(s)