Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Pierre Reverdy (1889-1960)

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Pierre Reverdy (1889-1960)
Le chant des morts
Paris: Tériade, 1948
Folio (42.5 × 32.5 cm), loose sheets, illustrated cover, publisher's slipcase.
First Edition.
43 poems by Pierre Reverdy printed in facsimile
Illustration: 125 red lithographs by Pablo Picasso (2 for the cover and 123 in-text).
It is one of Pierre Reverdy's major poetic sets, echoes of the sufferings of the war years and the extermination camps.

Unique collaboration of Pablo Picasso with the publisher Tériade.

Bibliography: P. Cramer, Pablo Picasso. Les livres illustrés, n°50.