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Best Picasso Books That Should Be On Your Bookshelf

Until you’ve consumed all of the best Picasso books, can you even claim to be a true fan?

Agentes secretos y el mural de Picasso (2017)

 Best Picasso Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfPablo 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.
Author(s): Mira Canion

Cooking for Picasso: A Novel (2017)

 Best Picasso Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfIt’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.
Author(s): Camille Aubray

A Life of Picasso: The Prodigy, 1881-1906 (2007)

 Best Picasso Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfAs 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.
Author(s): John Richardson

La France en danger et les secrets de Picasso (French Edition) (2017)

 Best Picasso Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfPablo 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.
Author(s): Mira Canion, Anny Ewing

In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art (2016)

 Best Picasso Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfWhen 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.
Author(s): Sue Roe

Picasso: The Artist and His Muses (2016)

 Best Picasso Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfTaking 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.
Author(s): Laurence Madeline, Soussloff M Catherine, et al.

Draw With Pablo Picasso (2008)

 Best Picasso Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfWhen 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.
Author(s): Ana Salvador

Picasso (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) (1984)

 Best Picasso Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfFor 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.
Author(s): Gertrude Stein

A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 (2010)

 Best Picasso Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfNow 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…
Author(s): John Richardson

Who Was Pablo Picasso? (2009)

 Best Picasso Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfOver 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.
Author(s): True Kelley

A Life of Picasso: The Cubist Rebel, 1907-1916 (2007)

 Best Picasso Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfIn 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.
Author(s): John Richardson

Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail (Anholt’s Artists Books For Children) (2007)

 Best Picasso Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfSylvette 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.
Author(s): Laurence Anholt

History’s Greatest Artists: The Life and Legacy of Pablo Picasso (2013)

 Best Picasso Books That Should Be On Your Bookshelf*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?
Author(s): Charles River Editors

Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection (2018)

 Best Picasso Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfEvocative 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.
Author(s): James Dempsey, Sabine Rewald

Best Picasso Books that Should be on Your Bookshelf

We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some picasso books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.

Picasso the Foreigner: An Artist in France, 1900-1973

Author(s): Annie Cohen-Solal
ID: 3677555, Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Year: 2023, Size: 19 Mb, Format: epub

Jung’s Reception of Picasso and Abstract Art

Author(s): Lucinda Hill
ID: 3222935, Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2022, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf

Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America

Author(s): Hugh Eakin
ID: 3332590, Publisher: Crown, Year: 2022, Size: 27 Mb, Format: pdf

Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are truly best-sellers according to USA Today, others are written by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.

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