Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
La Chèvre-Feuille Suite, 1943 | Complete set of 6 (Red)
Zincograph on Lafuma wove paper | Edition of 500
La Chèvre-Feuille — The Honeysuckle — was produced in Paris in 1943, during the German Occupation. Picasso remained in the city throughout the war, working with a productivity that was itself a form of resistance: continuing to make art under conditions designed to make art impossible. The suite was published by Robert-J. Godet, one of the small network of Parisian publishers who maintained cultural production through the Occupation years.
The six zincographs in this complete red suite present Surrealist figure compositions in Picasso's characteristic black line on coloured Lafuma wove paper — works that draw on the formal vocabulary he had been developing since the 1930s while carrying the particular compressed energy of work made under constraint. The figures here are not illustrating a story. They are enacting the logic of Surrealist form: bodies that transform, that interpenetrate, that follow the rules of dream rather than anatomy.
A complete suite of six, all in the red variant, in original condition: this is the kind of acquisition that belongs in a serious collection. Picasso's graphic work from the Occupation period is among the most contextually significant in his vast output.
Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot. Private viewings by appointment for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.
Set of 6 zincographs on Lafuma wove paper
Edition of 500
Published by Robert-J. Godet, Paris, 1943
Certificate of Authenticity
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