Visiting Picasso The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose (Hardback) /anglais - Hardcover

Cowling

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500512930 ISBN 13: 9780500512937

Verlag: THAMES HUDSON, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Containing uncensored and on-the-spot observations of Picasso at home and in company, Visiting Picasso is a wonderfully vivid, spontaneous and lively record of Roland Penroses many encounters with the artist and his family, friends and associates, from their first meeting in 1936 to the artists death in 1973. Over 70 photographs, many by Penroses wife Lee Miller, illustrate the colourful cast of characters, including Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot, Jean Cocteau and Georges Braque, as well as artworks and events described. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 408 pages; Description: 408 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-403) and index. Subjects: Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) --Friends and associates --Penrose, Roland, Sir --Diaries --Correspondence.

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Reseña del editor

Containing previously unpublished, uncensored and on-the-spot observations of Picasso at home and in company, "Visiting Picasso" is a wonderfully vivid, spontaneous and lively record of Roland Penroses' many encounters with the artist and his family, friends and associates, from their first meeting in 1936 to the artists death in 1973. Over seventy photographs, many by Penroses' wife Lee Miller, illustrate the colourful cast of characters, including Dora Maar, Francoise Gilot, Jean Cocteau and Georges Braque, as well as artworks and events described.

Biografía del autor

Elizabeth Cowling is a renowned Picasso scholar and was co-curator, with John Golding, of the blockbuster 2002 - 3 exhibition 'Matisse Picasso' (Tate Modern, Grand Palais, MoMA). She is currently Reader in History of Art at Edinburgh University. Her book Picasso: Style and Meaning won the 2003 British Academy Book Award.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: THAMES HUDSON
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0500512930
• ISBN 13: 9780500512937
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 408