Until you’ve consumed all of the best Picasso books, can you even claim to be a true fan?
- Life with Picasso (New York Review Books Classics) (2019)
- Agentes secretos y el mural de Picasso (2017)
- Cooking for Picasso: A Novel (2017)
- A Life of Picasso: The Prodigy, 1881-1906 (2007)
- La France en danger et les secrets de Picasso (French Edition) (2017)
- In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art (2016)
- Picasso: The Artist and His Muses (2016)
- Draw With Pablo Picasso (2008)
- Picasso (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) (1984)
- A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 (2010)
- Who Was Pablo Picasso? (2009)
- A Life of Picasso: The Cubist Rebel, 1907-1916 (2007)
- Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail (Anholt’s Artists Books For Children) (2007)
- History’s Greatest Artists: The Life and Legacy of Pablo Picasso (2013)
- Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection (2018)
Life with Picasso (New York Review Books Classics) (2019)
Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist.
Agentes secretos y el mural de Picasso (2017)
Pablo Picasso’s mural Guernica is on display at the 1937 International Exposition. Both sides of the Spanish Civil War quickly realize that the painting contains clues to the whereabouts of the supernatural Spear of Destiny. Its occult power can change the outcome of the Civil War, just as it has done in other battles throughout history.
Cooking for Picasso: A Novel (2017)
It’s off-season in the lovely seaside village of Juan-les-Pins, where seventeen-year-old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family-owned Café Paradis. A mysterious new patron who’s slipped out of Paris and is traveling under a different name has made an unusual request—to have his lunch served to him at the nearby villa he’s secretly rented, where he wishes to remain incognito.
A Life of Picasso: The Prodigy, 1881-1906 (2007)
As he magnificently combines meticulous scholarship with irresistible narrative appeal, Richardson draws on his close friendship with Picasso, his own diaries, the collaboration of Picasso’s widow Jacqueline, and unprecedented access to Picasso’s studio and papers to arrive at a profound understanding of the artist and his work. 800 photos.
La France en danger et les secrets de Picasso (French Edition) (2017)
Pablo Picasso’s mural Guernica is on display during the 1937 International Exposition in Paris. Opposing sides of French politics, Charles de Gaulle and Maréchal Pétain, quickly realize that the painting contains clues to the whereabouts of the supernatural Spear of Destiny. Its occult power can change the outcome of the French Resistance, just as it has done in other conflicts throughout history.
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art (2016)
When the young Pablo Picasso first arrived in Paris in 1900, the most progressive young artists all lived and worked in the seedy hillside quarter of Montmartre, in the shade of the old windmills.
Picasso: The Artist and His Muses (2016)
Taking a fresh approach to discussions around one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Picasso: The Artist and His Muses examines the significance of the six women who were most important to Picasso’s artistic development, as well as exploring in depth the notion of the artist/muse relationship.
Draw With Pablo Picasso (2008)
When I was young I could draw like Raphael, but it has taken me my whole life to learn to draw like a child. Now you can learn from the master himself. Step by step, line by line we show you how to recreate some of Picasso’s most famous motifs. Through copying and then improvising for yourself, this book will help you to see and appreciate Picasso’s drawings and inspire you to try out many more of your own.
Picasso (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) (1984)
For more than a generation, Gertrude Stein’s Paris home at 27 rue de Fleurus was the center of a glittering coterie of artists and writers, one of whom was Pablo Picasso.
A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 (2010)
Now in paperback: the third volume of John Richardson’s magisterial Life of Picasso.Here is Picasso at the height of his powers in Rome and Naples, producing the sets and costumes with Cocteau for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, and visiting Pompei where the antique statuary fuel his obsession with classicism; in Paris, creating some of his most important sculpture and painting as part of a group that included Braque, Apollinaire, Miró, and Breton; spending summers in the South of…
Who Was Pablo Picasso? (2009)
Over a long, turbulent life, Picasso continually discovered new ways of seeing the world and translating it into art. A restless genius, he went through a blue period, a rose period, and a Cubist phase. He made collages, sculptures out of everyday objects, and beautiful ceramic plates. True Kelley’s engaging biography is a wonderful introduction to modern art.
A Life of Picasso: The Cubist Rebel, 1907-1916 (2007)
In The Cubist Rebel, 1907–1916, the second volume of his Life of Picasso, John Richardson reveals the young Picasso in the Baudelairean role of “the painter of modern life”—a role that stipulated the brothel as the noblest subject for a modern artist. Hence his great breakthrough painting, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, with which this book opens. As well as portraying Picasso as a revolutionary, Richardson analyzes the more compassionate side of his genius.
Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail (Anholt’s Artists Books For Children) (2007)
Sylvette is a shy little girl, but her neighbor happens to be the artist Pablo Picasso. Attracted by Sylvettes classical facial profile and her lovely ponytail hair style, Picasso convinces her to overcome her shyness and pose for a series of artworks.
History’s Greatest Artists: The Life and Legacy of Pablo Picasso (2013)
*Includes pictures of more than 25 of Picasso’s most famous works, including an explanation of his techniques and influences. *Includes pictures of Picasso and important people in his life. *Explains the artistic influences and legacy of Picasso’s life and art. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. “Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don’t they try to understand the song of the birds?
Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection (2018)
Evocative and often highly erotic works on paper by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Pablo Picasso are presented along with new details about Scofield Thayer (1889–1982), the unusual and complicated man who collected them. Thayer was a wealthy publisher, poet, and aesthete who led an intense public life that included the editorship of the prominent literary journal The Dial and friendships with literary luminaries such as e. e. cummings.
Best Picasso Books that Should be on Your Bookshelf
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Jung’s Reception of Picasso and Abstract Art
Author(s): Lucinda Hill
ID: 3222935, Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2022, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
Life with Picasso
Author(s): Françoise Gilot; Carlton Lake
ID: 2399133, Publisher: New York Review of Books, Year: 2019, Size: 26 Mb, Format: epub
Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World
Author(s): Miles J. Unger
ID: 2197457, Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Year: 2018, Size: 48 Mb, Format: epub
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