At High Flame (À haute flamme)

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

Publisher Raymond Jacquet, Paris, 1955

Printer text: Raymond Jacquet, Paris; etchings: Georges Visat, [Paris]

Author Tristan Tzara (French (born Romania), 1896-1963)

Date1955

DimensionsSlipcase: H: 9 3/4 in. (248 mm); W: 6 5/8 in. (168 mm); Depth: 5/8 in. (16 mm).
Book: H: 9 7/16 in. (239 mm); W: 6 1/2 in. (165 mm); Depth: 9/16 in. (14 mm).
Page: H: 9 3/16 in. (234 mm); W: 6 1/4 in. (159 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 6 celluloid drypoints, incl. cover. Text: letterpress. Paper: Japan ivory wove paper.

ClassificationBooks

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

Object number

1984.908

Not on View

Label TextTzara left Paris in June 1940 and joined the crowds who were making the dangerous journey south. They had to take cover whenever a hostile plane fired. A HAUTE FLAMME, written 13 years later, was a poetic coming to terms with this dangerous, yet liberating exodus. Some of the verse is violent, some of it is rather melancholy. The frontispiece portrait of a man with flaming hair is an image of the ardent poet. The other engravings include a nude, a mask of a faun, a striding woman holding a flower in her outstreched hand, and the head of a mourning woman (Jacqueline Roque) wearing a veil.Published Referencescf. Goeppert, Sebastian, et al., Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books, Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1983, no. 72.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Picasso as an Illustrator, Jan. 23-May 29, 1988, no. 35.