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by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard

Pablo Picasso
 (Sung text for setting by F. Poulenc)
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG GER LIT
Entoure ce citron de blanc d'oeuf informe
Enrobe ce blanc d'oeuf d'un azur souple et fin
La ligne droite et noire a beau venir de toi
L'aube est derrière ton tableau

Et des murs innombrables croulent
Derrière ton tableau et toi l'oeil fixe
Comme un aveugle comme un fou
Tu dresses une haute épée dans le vide

Une main pourquoi pas une seconde main
Et pourquoi pas la bouche nue comme une plume
Pourquoi pas un sourire et pouquoi pas des larmes
Tout au bord de la toile où jouent les petits clous

Voici le jour d'autrui laisse aux ombres leur chance
Et d'un seul mouvement des paupières renonce

First appeared in the revue Labyrinthe, June 15, 1945, and then in Poésie ininterrompue, Paris, Éd. Gallimard, 1946.

Composition:

    Set to music by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Pablo Picasso", FP 161 no. 1 (1956), published 1957 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Travail du peintre, no. 1, Éd. Max Eschig

Text Authorship:

  • by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, "Le Travail du peintre, 1", written 1945, appears in Poésie ininterrompue, first published 1945

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "Pablo Picasso", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Julia Henning) , "Pablo Picasso", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , "Pablas Pikasas", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 109

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