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 — is a 1943 book by French Surrealist poet Georges Hugnet, illustrated with six zincographs by Picasso and published in Paris by Robert-J. Godet, with an accompanying insert essay by Paul Éluard. Produced under the German Occupation, its creation was itself a form of resistance: continuing to make and publish art under conditions designed to make art impossible.
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
Artwork size: 23 x 28 cm
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