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Chronicle of Historic Times (Chroniques des temps héroïques)
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish (active France), 1881-1973)
Publisher: Louis Broder, Paris, 1956
Printer: text: L'Imprimerie Union; drypoints: Georges LeBlanc; lithographs: Desjobert
Author: Max Jacob (French, 1876-1944)
Date: 1956
Dimensions:
Slipcase: H: 10 1/4 in. (261 mm); W: 7 3/4 in. (197 mm); Depth: 1 1/2 in. (38 mm).
Chemise: H: 10 in. (254 mm); W: 7 11/16 in. (195 mm); Depth: 1 3/8 in. (35 mm).
Book: H: 9 13/16 in. (250 mm); W: 7 3/8 in. (188 mm); Depth: 1 1/8 in. (29 mm).
Page: H: 9 1/2 in. (242 mm); W: 7 in. (178 mm).
Medium: Original prints: 3 drypoints, 1 transfer lithograph in black, and 2 transfer lithographs in colors (cover and slipcase), plus an extra proof of the slipcase lithograph; plus 24 wood engravings in black after drawings by Picasso.
Text: letterpress in black with red.
Paper: Montval white laid paper, watermarked.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss in honor of Barbara K. Sutherland
Object number: 1984.912
Label Text:In 1935 Max Jacob was asked to contribute an account of the years 1900–1930 to be used in a book to be published in memory of the art dealer Paul Guillaume that was being assembled by his widow. Jacob wrote these reminiscences in 1935–36, but they were not published until 1956, well after Jacob's death in 1944 in a Nazi concentration camp. The publication commemorated the 80th anniversary of Jacob’s birth. The text includes tributes to Jacob’s two great friends, poet Guillaume Apollinaire and Pablo Picasso, and, of course Paul Guillaume, the dealer in African and modern art. Picasso's illustrations for the text are all posthumous portraits of Max Jacob, who had been the author of the artist's first illustrated books.
Picasso's red and black lithographs for the cover and slipcase are seemingly simple patterns of scribbled dots or splotches, which could symbolize heartbeats or years "marking" time.
Picasso's red and black lithographs for the cover and slipcase are seemingly simple patterns of scribbled dots or splotches, which could symbolize heartbeats or years "marking" time.
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