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Diurnes: découpages et photographies
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish (active France), 1881-1973)
Artist: André Villers (French, born 1930)
Publisher: Berggruen, Paris, 1962
Printer: reproductions and pochoirs: Daniel Jacomet, Paris; text: l’Imprimerie Union, Paris
Author: Jacques Prévert (French, 1900-1977)
Date: 1962
Dimensions:
Box: H: 16 1/8 in. (410 mm); W: 12 3/8 in. (314 mm); Depth: 1 5/8 in. (42 mm).
Book: H: 15 7/8 in. (404 mm); W: 12 1/4 in. (311 mm); Depth: 1 1/4 in. (31 mm).
Page: H: 15 3/4 in. (400 mm); W: 11 3/4 in. (299 mm).
Medium: Reproductions: 30 photolithographs of paper cut-outs superimposed on photographs, plus pochoired designs after Picasso (book cover and box).
Text: letterpress.
Paper: Arches cream wove paper (typeface: Garamond).
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss in honor of Barbara K. Sutherland
Object number: 1984.934
Label Text:This book is the result of a collaboration between Picasso, the photographer Villers, and the poet Prevert. Picasso made cut-outs of mask like heads and silhouettes of men, women, fauns, and animals. Villers superimposed these cut-outs on 30 photographs, thus producing different effects. Then Prevert, after his eye wander from image to image, made a delightful account of his visual promenade. The title DIURNES suggests beings that live only by-day; Prevert's text is about the ephemeral creatures who live between sunrise and sunset -- as suggested by the 30 Picasso-Villers images.
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