Pablo Picasso Books

Artwork by Pablo Picasso. Contributions by Felix Reusse. Text by Erich Franz, Henri Deschamps.

Pablo Picasso and Luis de Gongora y Argote. Gongora. [Paris]: Anthese Epic, [n.d.]. Reprint of the edition originally published in 1948. Folio. Poems by Luis de Gongora y Argote. Drawings by Picasso. Text in French. Unpaginated. Introduction by Pierre Daix. Publisher's black-stamped bright red cloth. Sonnets by the sixteenth-century Spanish poet, accompanied by drawings by Picasso, who has also copied out the original poems in Spanish.

In its most prestigious exhibition to date, the Fondation Beyeler has devoted itself to the early paintings and sculptures of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) that date from his so-called Blue and Pink periods to early Cubism. The paintings from this stage of his career, all produced between 1901 and 1907, are milestones on the road Picasso took to becoming the most famous artist of the twentieth century. They can be counted among modernism’s most beautiful and most emotional works, and are also some of the most precious works of art ever to exist. This comprehensive exhibition and its companion catalogue feature around eighty masterpieces, most of which are only rarely loaned out by famous museums and private collections around the world. EXHIBITION February 3 – June 16, 2019 Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel PABLO PICASSO (1881–1973) is regarded as the epitome of the twentieth-century artist. In addition to his paintings and sculptures, his graphic works also enjoy special fame.

Picasso’s granddaughter introduces readers to a sublime selection of the artist’s erotic masterpieces, brought together in this lush and elegant volume. Pablo Picasso lived life as he painted it—with sensual energy and abandon. Nearly every woman whom he loved has been immortalized in his work, from the playful nudes of his early years to the classical representations twenties and the more frankly sexual paintings that crowned his career. With mesmerizing color and an appealing design, this chronologically arranged volume follows Picasso’s artistic development as expressed in more than ninety erotically charged works. Exquisitely reproduced paintings and etchings such as Salomé Dancing Nude in Front of Herod, Demoiselles d’Avignon, and the famous Pisseuse are displayed alongside fragments from Picasso’s love letters and his revealing observations about the role of sensuality in his life. Diana Widmaier Picasso comments on her grandfather’s amorous adventures, offering intimate revelations and insights that transform this beautiful book into a personal reflection of one man’s consuming passion.

This work reveals Picasso as an innovator and conceptualist, illustrating his works from Cubism via abstraction to his late sculptures. It focuses in particular on Picasso's game with surfaces and lines in the various phases of his art.

Physical description; 288 pages : illustrations (some color). ; 30 cm. Notes; Translation of Picasso, el nacimiento de un genio. p. 176-182. Translation of Picasso, el nacimiento de un genio. Subjects; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973). Spanish paintings — Picasso, Pablo, (1890-1917). Spanish Painting. Genres; Bibliography. Biography. Illustrated.

Introduction and chronology by William Rubin and Dominique Bozo

Pablo Picasso's overwhelming presence has influenced the direction of art, as well as generations of artists, for nearly three quarters of a century. 182 pages drawings and text from his beginning to his later years.