The Goat-Leaf (La chèvre-feuille)

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

Publisher Robert-J. Godet, Paris, 1943

Author Georges Hugnet (French, 1906-1974)

Date1943

DimensionsPortfolio: H: 11 in. (279 mm); W: 9 in. (228 mm); Depth: 3/4 in. (19 mm).
Book: H: 11 1/8 in. (283 mm); W: 9 in. (229 mm); Depth: 3/4 in. (19 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 11 1/8 in. (282 mm); W: 9 in. (228 mm).
Portfolio: H: 11 in. (279 mm); W: 9 in. (229 mm).
Page: H: 11 1/8 in. (282 mm); W: 9 in. (228 mm).

MediumOriginal print: etching (stored separately--see Remarks). Reproductions: 6 photomechanical reproductions of lithographs, plus suite of 3 sets of prints (one printed in red, one in yellow, one in turquoise). Text: letterpress in black with green. Paper: Arches cream wove paper, watermarked.

ClassificationBooks

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

Object number

1984.888

Not on View

Label TextHugnet's 27 love poems celebrate, as the colophon tells us, "The first anniversary of the author's encounter with honeysuckle (chèvre-feuille)." The poems, full of beautifully erotic imagery, tell of delirious love. Picasso's illustrations of women displaying their charms compliment the text.Published Referencescf. Goeppert, Sebastian, et al., Pablo Picasso: the Illustrated Books, Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1983, no. 38

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. 66.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Picasso as an Illustrator, 1988, no. 15

Toledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Illustrated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 63.