Visiting Picasso : the Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose / Elizabeth Cowling

Cowling, Elizabeth

ISBN 10: 0500512930 / ISBN 13: 9780500512937

Verlag: New York, N. Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2006

Beschreibung

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. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 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. 2 Kg. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 155974

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Visiting Picasso : the Notebooks and Letters...

Verlag: New York, N. Y. : Thames & Hudson

Erscheinungsdatum: 2006

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

Auflage: First Edition.

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Inhaltsangabe:

Containing previously unpublished, uncensored and on-the-spot observations of Picasso at home and in company, "Visiting Picasso" is a wonderfully vivid, spontaneous and lively record of Roland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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Elizabeth Cowling is currently Reader in History of Art at Edinburgh University. Her book Picasso: Style and Meaning won the 2003 British Academy Book Award.