Chronicle of Historic Times (Chroniques des temps héroïques)

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Chronicle of Historic Times (Chroniques des temps héroïques)

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

Publisher Louis Broder, Paris, 1956

Printer text: L'Imprimerie Union; drypoints: Georges LeBlanc; lithographs: Desjobert

Author Max Jacob (French, 1876-1944)

Date1956

DimensionsSlipcase: H: 10 1/4 in. (261 mm); W: 7 3/4 in. (197 mm); Depth: 1 1/2 in. (38 mm).
Chemise: H: 10 in. (254 mm); W: 7 11/16 in. (195 mm); Depth: 1 3/8 in. (35 mm).
Book: H: 9 13/16 in. (250 mm); W: 7 3/8 in. (188 mm); Depth: 1 1/8 in. (29 mm).
Page: H: 9 1/2 in. (242 mm); W: 7 in. (178 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 3 drypoints, 1 transfer lithograph in black, and 2 transfer lithographs in colors (cover and slipcase), plus an extra proof of the slipcase lithograph; plus 24 wood engravings in black after drawings by Picasso. Text: letterpress in black with red. Paper: Montval white laid paper, watermarked.

ClassificationBooks

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

Object number

1984.912

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Label TextIn 1935 Max Jacob was asked to contribute an account of the years 1900–1930 to be used in a book to be published in memory of the art dealer Paul Guillaume that was being assembled by his widow. Jacob wrote these reminiscences in 1935–36, but they were not published until 1956, well after Jacob's death in 1944 in a Nazi concentration camp. The publication commemorated the 80th anniversary of Jacob’s birth. The text includes tributes to Jacob’s two great friends, poet Guillaume Apollinaire and Pablo Picasso, and, of course Paul Guillaume, the dealer in African and modern art. Picasso's illustrations for the text are all posthumous portraits of Max Jacob, who had been the author of the artist's first illustrated books. Picasso's red and black lithographs for the cover and slipcase are seemingly simple patterns of scribbled dots or splotches, which could symbolize heartbeats or years "marking" time.Published Referencescf. Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 238

cf. Goeppert, Sebastian, et al., Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books, Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1983, no. 78.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Picasso as an Illustrator, Jan. 23-May 29, 1988, no. 37.