Signé; André Verdet - La Chèvre de Picasso [avec envoi de l'auteur] - 1952

Original edition of this rare monograph including two texts by the eclectic artist André Verdet (1913-2004) on the legend of the 'Golden Goat' of Vallauris, which inspired Picasso's sculpture.

Copy accompanied by a beautiful signed autograph inscription from André Verdet: 'For Andrée Claire — to the marvelous sun enclosed in the two [???] she just gave me on this evening of May 1961. — as a true sign. A. Verdet.'

16 reproductions of black-and-white photographs in-text (Picasso's Chèvre).

Brochure with a grey cover titled in red and black.

In excellent condition.

André Verdet (1913-2004) was closely associated with Picasso. Poet, painter, sculptor, and musician, this aesthete residing in Saint-Paul-de-Vence became close to the artist when he settled in the South of France in 1948.

Since 1957, Verdet, who says he learned to write with Prévert and to paint with Picasso, has been exhibiting regularly. In 1961, under Picasso's influence, he created his first ceramics in Vallauris, at Madoura. He published a poetry collection in 1975 titled The Sky and Its Ghost (Galilée Editions) and produced his first record in 1980: Picasso-Blues.

Signed; André Verdet
The Goat of Picasso [with the author's inscription]
Paris, éditions de Beaune, 1952
in-8 (21 x 16 cm); 16 ff. n. ch.