Picasso, Modigliani, and a Blind Man Crazy for Color. Illustrated by Picasso's Model and Muse, Sylvette David. Second, Revised Edition - Softcover

Couteau, Rob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1963363000 ISBN 13: 9781963363005

Verlag: Dominantstar, 2024

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In the early years of the twentieth century, a retired legal clerk in Montmartre named Leon Angely collected Picassos, Modiglianis, and Utrillos before any of these artists were well known. And he purchased many of these creations after his failing vision left him almost completely blind. Legend has it that Leon was assisted by a young girl who served as his "eyes," and based on her description of the work he would make his selections. This homage to the 'blind man who was crazy for color' uncovers previously unknown information about this important yet largely forgotten figure who inspired one of Picasso's most powerful engravings, featuring a 'Blind Minotaur' being led by a little girl. The book is illustrated with original artwork by Picasso's model and muse, Sylvette David, who posed for the painter when she was only nineteen years old, in 1954. Now eighty-seven, Sylvette credits Picasso with inspiring her to devote her life to painting. Her work is frequently exhibited in Europe, and in 2021 she was invited to lecture at the Musee Picasso is Paris.

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ROB COUTEAU is a Brooklyn-born author and visual artist. His publications have been praised in Evergreen Review, Publishers Weekly, New Art Examiner, Midwest Book Review, and Witty Partition. In 1985 he won the North American Essay Award, sponsored by the American Humanist Association. His work has been cited in books such as Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Litera¬ture by Tyrone Simp¬son, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'Love in the Time of Cholera' by Thomas Fahy, Con¬ver¬sations with Ray Bradbury edited by Steven Aggelis, and David Cohen's Forgotten Millions, a book about the home¬less. His interviews include conversations with Pu¬litz¬er Prize¬-winning author Justin Kaplan, Last Exit to Brooklyn nov¬elist Hubert Selby, Simon & Schuster editor Michael Korda, LSD discoverer Albert Hofmann, Picasso's model and muse Sylvette David, sci-fi author Ray Bradbury, film star and bibliophile Neil Pearson, and historian Philip Willan, author Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Ter¬rorism in Italy. Couteau has appeared as a guest on Bob Barrett's The Best of Our Knowledge (WAMC), Len Osanic's Black Op Radio, and on Monocle 24 in Europe. Since 2020 he has devoted himself to republishing annotated texts of important but forgotten authors such as Stanley Marks, Charles Beadle, and Francis Carco. In 2023 he published Intimate Souvenirs, a memoir featuring an Introduction by Robert Roper, author of Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita and Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War.

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• Verlag: Dominantstar
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1963363000
• ISBN 13: 9781963363005
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 88
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland