Hemp Neckties (Cravates de chanvre)

Artist Pablo Picasso (Spanish (active France), 1881-1973)

Publisher Éditions nord-sud, Paris, 1922

Author Pierre Reverdy (French, 1889-1960)

Date1922

DimensionsBook: 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).

MediumOriginal print: etching on white wove paper. Text: letterpress in black with red on white wove paper.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss in honor of Barbara K. Sutherland

Object number

1984.876

Not on View

Label TextThe 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 hangedPublished Referencescf. Goeppert, Sebastian, et al., Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books, Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1983, no. 11

cf. Wheeler, Monroe, Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators, New York, 1946, p. 109

cf. The Frank Crowninshield Collection of Modern French Illustrated Books, New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1943, no. 598

cf. Strachan, W. J., The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century livre d'artiste, New York, 1969, p. 339

cf. Johnson, Robert Flynn, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870--2000: The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books, San Francisco, 2001, no. 45.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Picasso as an Illustrator, Jan. 23-May 29, 1988, no. 3.