The Goat-Leaf (La chèvre-feuille)

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The Goat-Leaf (La chèvre-feuille)

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

Publisher Robert-J. Godet, Paris, 1943

Printer E. Durand, Paris

Author Georges Hugnet (French, 1906-1974)

Date1943

DimensionsBook: 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).

MediumReproductions: 6 photomechanical reproductions of lithographs. Text: letterpress in black with green. Paper: Lafuma cream wove paper, watermarked.

ClassificationBooks

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

Object number

1984.890

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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 lerotic 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, Jan. 23-May 29, 1988, no. 15

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