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Picasso's extraordinary capacity to work in a variety of mediums
and styles has amazed his critics since the first years of the
century. This collection of critical and personal reactions to
Picasso at every stage of his career provides a remarkable account
of the many innovations and changes of direction that baffled his
contemporaries. Picasso's working methods and his attitudes to his
own art are also revealed in conversations and in letters and
statements by his closest friends.
"A Picasso Anthology" contains a wide range and variety of
contemporary responses to Picasso and his art. There are essential
passages from books by his close friends, including Apollinaire,
Cocteau, and Roland Penrose; an important body of Catalan and
Spanish criticism; reactions from English critics, including Roger
Fry and John Middleton; a remarkable collection of Russian
criticism of his cubist work, written in the years just before the
Revolution; and Czech, Danish, and Italian articles, as well as
mainstream texts from France and Germany.
Picasso began to spend his summer holidays in Antibes Juan-les-Pins
in 1920, returning most summers to the Cote d'Azur until the
outbreak of war. During those years, he produced paintings and
drawings of the villas where he stayed with his family, as well as
of bathers on the beach, and many studies for paintings that were
ultimately realized in his studio back in Paris. He returned again
after the war and showed his affinity for the region in
compositions that reflect its classical and mythological past. M.
Pablo's Holidays accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the
Musee Picasso in Antibes, and is composed of seven essays by
authoritative writers on the artist. The essays are enhanced by six
thematic sections that present the exhibited works. Distributed for
Editions Hazan, Paris Exhibition Schedule: Musee Picasso, Antibes
(09/28/18-01/15/19)
It is a widely held view that Picasso’s creative work received a
fresh impetus with each new muse in his life. This volume does not
discuss his biography or his stylistic phases, however, but pays
tribute to the individual fates of the women who left their mark on
the artist’s life. Personalities like Françoise Gilot and Dora
Maar are among those whose entire life and creative work are
acknowledged, not just the years they spent at Picasso’s side.
The book sketches the life of ten women in the life of the Spanish
artist. Picasso was close to his mother throughout her life and
chose her maiden name as his artist’s name. When he wanted to
marry the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova, she warned him that he
would remain married to painting throughout his life. They
separated in 1935; the reason was his young muse Marie-Thérèse
Walter, who was also soon deposed by Dora Maar. Following various
separations, women like the young artist Françoise Gilot also
disappeared from Picasso’s canvases, but did not vanish entirely.
This book pays tribute to them all. Presented women: Doña Maria
Picasso y Lopez (Picasso’s mother), Maria Dolores Ruiz Picasso
(Picasso’s sister), Gertrude Stein, Fernande Olivier, Eva Gouel
(Marcelle Humbert), Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thérèse Walter , Dora
Maar, Françoise Gilot, Jaqueline Roque
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