Eluard Picasso For Peace. Large Format Version

WRITTEN IN FRENCH

The architecture of peace
Rests on the whole world.
Paul Eluard

Born in the mid-1920s, in the midst of the Surrealist movement, the friendship of Paul Éluard and Pablo Picasso took on a new dimension in 1935, to experience seventeen years of shadowless exchanges, until Éluard's death...

WRITTEN IN FRENCH

The architecture of peace
Rests on the whole world.
Paul Eluard

Born in the mid-1920s, in the midst of the Surrealist movement, the friendship of Paul Éluard and Pablo Picasso took on a new dimension in 1935, to experience seventeen years of shadowless exchanges, until Éluard's death in 1952.

It was the Spanish Civil War and the tragedy of Guernica that cemented their common commitment against Nazism and fascism, for the freedom of peoples and for peace. This commitment found its ultimate expression in 1951 in The Face of Peace, the only book born of their collaboration. Picasso's variations on the theme of the dove - which then attained its universal status as a symbol - dialogue with the short poems of Éluard, whose tender simplicity reconnects with that of the Poems for Peace that his pacifism had inspired him to do at the end of the 1914-1918 war.

Poems by Éluard from various periods complete this collection, which highlights the commitment to peace of two of the most important artists of the twentieth century.

French
240 pages

Éditions Hazan