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CAISSE À REMORDS
June 4, 2020 Picasso and Jacqueline Roque moved to Notre-Dame-de-Vie outside of Mougins in 1960, and in the process discovered a cache of... Read more -
EAUX-FORTES ORIGINALS POUR LES TEXTS DE BUFFON
(Bloch 328–358, Baer 575–605, Cramer 37) June 4, 2020 In 1931, Ambroise Vollard had suggested that Picasso illustrate Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière by Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon... Read more -
MARIE-THÉRÈSE WALTER
June 4, 2020 In 1927, Picasso—who was in his mid-forties, married, and had a young son—began a clandestine affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter, a... Read more
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PICASSO’S CLASSICAL PERIOD
1914-1925 June 4, 2020 During World War I, Picasso’s focus switched from Cubism to a style influenced by classical Greek and Roman art and... Read more -
PICASSO’S CUBIST PHASE
1907- c. 1915 June 4, 2020 Cubism, a movement founded by Picasso and his close friend Georges Braque in 1907, was a radical breakthrough in art... Read more -
REMBRANDT IN THE SUITE VOLLARD
June 4, 2020 “[When I work] I have a feeling that Delacroix, Giotto, Tintoretto, El Greco, and the rest, as well as all... Read more
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SCULPTOR'S STUDIO
From the Suite Vollard June 4, 2020 The forty-six plates that comprise the “Sculptor’s Studio” prints of the Suite Vollard provide insight into Picasso’s thoughts about the... Read more -
SUITE DES SALTIMBANQUES
June 4, 2020 The Suite des Saltimbanques, a series of fifteen loosely-related etchings and drypoints created from late 1904 through 1905, was Picasso’s... Read more -
THE BLIND MINOTAUR
June 4, 2020 The four plates that comprise the “Blind Minotaur” series within the Suite Vollard, a subset of the fifteen Minotaur images,... Read more
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THE MINOTAUR
June 4, 2020 In 1933 Albert Skira, who had made his debut as a publisher two years prior with Picasso’s livre d’artiste Les... Read more -
THE SUITE VOLLARD
(Bloch 134 – Bloch 234) June 4, 2020 Around 1927, the famed dealer Ambroise Vollard commissioned a suite of one hundred prints from Picasso that have become known... Read more
