Cheeks on Fire (Les joues en feu: poèmes anciens et poèmes inédits)

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Cheeks on Fire (Les joues en feu: poèmes anciens et poèmes inédits)

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

Publisher Bernard Grasset, éditeur, Paris, 1925

Printer F. Paillart, Abbeville (Somme)

Author Raymond Radiguet (French, 1903-1923)

Date1925

DimensionsSlipcase: H: 7 11/16 in. (195 mm); W: 5 1/8 in. (130 mm); Depth: 13/16 in. (21 mm).
Book: H: 7 9/16 in. (192 mm); W: 5 in. (127 mm); Depth: 3/4 in. (19 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 7 3/16 in. (183 mm); W: 4 1/2 in. (114 mm).
Sheet: H: 7 3/16 in. (182 mm); W: 4 3/8 in. (111 mm).

MediumReproductions: 2 collotypes of a transfer lithograph drawing (drawing executed 1920) on china laid and Van Gelder cream laid papers. Text: letterpress in black on Van Gelder cream laid paper, watermarked.

ClassificationBooks

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

Object number

1984.878

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Label TextRadiguet, born in 1903, was the child prodigy of the cubist and dadaist avant-garde. In 1920, he published his first collection of poems LES JOUES EN FEU. This copy of the book was the posthumous second edition, for in December 1923, the young poet died of typhoid. The frontispiece is a collotype reproduction of the portrait of Radiguet which Picasso had drawn on transfer paper in December 1920.Published Referencescf. Goeppert, Sebastian, et al., Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books, Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1983, no. 13.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Picasso as an Illustrator, 1988, no. 6.