This publication features new texts by esteemed Picasso biographer John Richardson, contemporary artist Jeff Koons, and scholars Dakin Hart and Memory Holloway. Additionally, the catalogue includes an imagined conversation between Roberto Otero and Picasso, an essay by Hélène Parmelin, and all texts originally included in the four catalogues from Picasso's Avignon exhibitions in 1970 and 1973, written by Christian Zervos, Rafael Alberti, and René Char.
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If You Love Late Picasso If you like late Picasso, then you're going to love this book. I do. What I liked best about this book was that it published numerous color works I had never seen before -- and that is hard to do, because I am one major late Picasso aficionado. And these are not the best works or extremely well known works. These are the ones Picasso would paint in a day -- or much less. With that, you see the raw artistry of these paintings. Do they all rock your world? No. But together, you feel the intensity, fever, and... more info
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Was late Picasso really a joke? Maybe not so... This is a hefty volume which accompanies the museum-quality exhibition of seldom-seen works from Picasso's late phase (1967-1972)held at the Gagosian Gallery in NYC until June 2009. It starts with an interesting essay by Picasso's best biographer, John Richardson (who curated the exhibition), whose aim is to show how important this late phase is in the context of the artist's entire career. One may not agree with Richardson's conclusion that the late works constitute the apex of Picasso's oeuvre insofar as... more info
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