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Picasso 1932 - Love, Fame, Tragedy (Paperback)
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Picasso 1932 - Love, Fame, Tragedy (Paperback)
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1932 was an extraordinary year for Picasso, even by his own
standards. His paintings reached a new level of sensuality and he
cemented his status as the most influential artist of the time.
Over the course of this year he created some of his best-loved
works, from colour-saturated portraits to surrealist drawings,
developing ideas from the voluptuous sculptures he had made at his
newly acquired country estate. In his personal life, throughout
1932, Picasso kept a delicate balance between tending to his wife
Olga Khokhlova and their son Paulo, and his passionate love affair
with Marie-Therese Walter, twenty-eight years his junior. This
publication will bring these complex artistic and personal dynamics
to life. It was also a year of invention and reflection. Having
recently turned fifty, Picasso embarked on the first volume of what
remains the most ambitious catalogue of an artist's work ever made.
Meanwhile, the first ever retrospective of his work was staged, a
show that featured new paintings alongside earlier works in a range
of different styles. Picasso's journeys between his homes in
Boisgeloup and Paris capture the contradictions of his existence at
this pivotal moment: a life divided between countryside retreat and
urban bustle, established wife and recent lover, painting and
sculpture, sensuality and darkness. The year ended traumatically
when Marie-Therese fell seriously ill after swimming, losing most
of her iconic blond hair. In his final works of the year, Picasso
transformed the event into scenes of rescue and rape, a dramatic
finale to a year of love, fame and tragedy that pushed Picasso to
the height of his creative powers. This lavishly illustrated
publication will explore the major themes and concerns of 1932, in
essays, artworks and archive photographs. It will strip away common
myths to reveal the man and the artist in his full complexity and
richness.
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