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At High Flame (À haute flamme)
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish (active France), 1881-1973)
Publisher: Raymond Jacquet, Paris, 1955
Printer: text: Raymond Jacquet, Paris; etchings: Georges Visat, [Paris]
Author: Tristan Tzara (French (born Romania), 1896-1963)
Date: 1955
Dimensions:
Slipcase: H: 9 3/4 in. (248 mm); W: 6 5/8 in. (168 mm); Depth: 5/8 in. (16 mm).
Book: H: 9 7/16 in. (239 mm); W: 6 1/2 in. (165 mm); Depth: 9/16 in. (14 mm).
Page: H: 9 3/16 in. (234 mm); W: 6 1/4 in. (159 mm).
Medium: Original prints: 6 celluloid drypoints, incl. cover.
Text: letterpress.
Paper: Japan ivory wove paper.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss in honor of Barbara K. Sutherland
Object number: 1984.908
Label Text:Tzara left Paris in June 1940 and joined the crowds who were making the dangerous journey south. They had to take cover whenever a hostile plane fired.
A HAUTE FLAMME, written 13 years later, was a poetic coming to terms with this dangerous, yet liberating exodus. Some of the verse is violent, some of it is rather melancholy.
The frontispiece portrait of a man with flaming hair is an image of the ardent poet. The other engravings include a nude, a mask of a faun, a striding woman holding a flower in her outstreched hand, and the head of a mourning woman (Jacqueline Roque) wearing a veil.
A HAUTE FLAMME, written 13 years later, was a poetic coming to terms with this dangerous, yet liberating exodus. Some of the verse is violent, some of it is rather melancholy.
The frontispiece portrait of a man with flaming hair is an image of the ardent poet. The other engravings include a nude, a mask of a faun, a striding woman holding a flower in her outstreched hand, and the head of a mourning woman (Jacqueline Roque) wearing a veil.
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