Screen LibraryBecoming Picasso : Paris 1901 /
1901 was a momentous and turbulent year for the nineteen-year-old Picasso. His first visit to Paris, at the end of 1900, had fuelled his ambitions and led to the prospect of an exhibition with one of the city's most important modern art dealers, Ambroise Vollard. As he prepared work for the sho...
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Courtauld Gallery in association with Paul Holberton Pub.,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
1901 was a momentous and turbulent year for the nineteen-year-old Picasso. His first visit to Paris, at the end of 1900, had fuelled his ambitions and led to the prospect of an exhibition with one of the city's most important modern art dealers, Ambroise Vollard. As he prepared work for the show he received news that his closest friend, Carles Casagemas, had committed suicide. The tragedy would have a profound impact upon his art as the year unfolded. Picasso left for Paris in May with around 20 paintings and little over a month to produce enough work to fill his Vollard exhibition. Once there, he painted unstintingly, sometimes finishing three canvases in a single day. This great outpouring of creative energy resulted in more than 60 paintings for the exhibition. The canvases express Picasso's desire to take on and reinvent the styles and motifs of his artist heroes, such as Van Gogh, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec. |
| Item Description: | Published to accompany the exhibition Becoming Picasso, Paris 1901, the Courtauld Gallery, London, 14 February-26 May 2013. |
| Carrier Form: | 184 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-183). |
| ISBN: |
1907372458 9781907372452 |
| Index Number: | N6853 |
| CLC: | J205.551 |
| Call Number: | J205.551/B398 |
| Contents: | Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901: an introduction / Barnaby Wright -- Picasso's artistic practice in 1901 / Marilyn McCully -- Incipit Picasso: from The Birth of Tragedy to The Burial of Casagemas / Gavin Parkinson -- The formation of genius / C.F.B. Miller -- Catalogue / Barnaby Wright ; with additional research by Sandra Boks -- Appendix / Marilyn McCully and Michael Raeburn. |