[PICASSO PABLO]: (1881-1973) - VERDET ANDRE (1913-2004)

[PICASSO PABLO]: (1881-1973) Spanish painter, a co-founder of the Cubist movement. VERDET ANDRE (1913-2004) French poet, painter and sculptor, a friend of Pablo Picasso. Book signed and inscribed, being a softcover edition of La Chevre de Picasso, published by Editions de Beaune, Paris, 1952, in an edition of 4,000 copies, featuring a printed French text essay by Verdet as well as a poem and with a number of black and white illustrations. Signed and inscribed by Verdet in bold fountain pen ink beneath one of the illustrations, ´Pour Loulou, mon pote de la Resistance et d´ailleurs, A Verdet´ (Translation: ´For Loulou, my pal from the Resistance and elsewhere, A Verdet´) and dated November 1953 in his hand. Some very light, minimal age wear, about VG Verdet was arrested by the Gestapo as a member of the Resistance during World War II and was first deported to Auschwitz and later moved to Buchenwald.