Marie-Laure Bernadac Bücher

Das facettenreiche Leben des prominentesten Künstlers des 20. Jahrhunderts birgt selbst noch für Kenner Überraschungen.

Als Picasso 1973 im Alter von fast 92 Jahren starb, hinterließ er ein gewaltiges Werk, das in unserem Jahrhundert seinesgleichen sucht. Das Picasso-Museum in Paris verfügt mit seinen mehr als 5000 Werken über die weltweit größte Sammlung von Picassos Arbeiten. Dieser Band gibt einen Überblick über die schönsten Gemälde und Skulpturen dieses Museums.

With 817 illustrations, including 58 plates in full color. Translated from the French by Alexander Lieven. Bound in the publisher's original cloth with the spine stamped in gilt.

The architectural history of the Louvre stretches back to the early 13th century. A comparatively modest royal fortress, it became the royal residence under Francois I, friend and patron of Leonardo da Vinci. Louis XIV turned the Louvre into a splendid castle. Four years after the outbreak of the French Revolution, the Louvre opened its doors to the public. The royal art collections, with constant additions through Napoleon's military campaigns and forays as well as donations, purchases and excavations, today make the Louvre one of the world's richest and finest museums. Candida Höfer, known for her images of deserted public spaces, photographed the empty rooms and galleries of the Louvre on days when it was closed to the public. In her luminous color pictures, the treasures of Western art enter into a silent yet eloquent dialog with the architectural setting, the luxurious or sober decor, the building's past, and its present as a museum.

Picasso's name has become synonymous with creative genius, but who was he - a public figure who lived his life in the headlines, or a private person, unpredictable and filled with secrets? This intimate portrait traces his life from the early years in Spain through his long residence in Paris. In it we meet his friends and lovers and witness his rise from poverty to overwhelming worldwide recognition. Above all, he was an artist who, through constant experimentation, made an indelible mark on the 20th-century.

Traces the artist's rise from poverty to worldwide recognition, featuring first-hand accounts of Picasso by his friends, lovers, and colleagues, excerpts from his own writings, and 192 reproductions of his work.

''Picasso's still lifes, though less dramatic than his highly charged figurative pictures, include some of his most original, daring and emotionally complex work. This lavish catalogue of a traveling exhibition combines sensitive connoisseurship and ample illustrations (393 plates, 145 in color) to document Picasso's exploration of still lifes in paintings, sculpture, constructions, collages, drawings, prints and ceramics. The great analytical cubist experiments are here, along with many less familiar forays. Boggs, a Picasso scholarsufficient ID?seems circular/it's what this person does all day, every day, so stet.gs , shows how the artist raided the techniques of Cezanne, Rousseau, Braque, Matisse, Zurbaran and Chardin to produce powerful still lifes that bore his distinctive stamp. Bernadac and Leal, curators at the Musee Picasso in Paris, in separate essays investigate his obsession with food imagery and his "Don Juanism," or cheerful, promiscuous mixing of styles.''-- Site de l'éditeur

With their pioneering method using dots, the artists of Pointillism no longer directed their gaze only towards the imitation of reality. In their paintings between 1886 and 1930 their dots, colour and light assumed an independent existence to create masterpieces of unprecedented brightness and colour diversity. The works by the inventors of this technique, Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, marked the beginning of this exuberant outburst of colour. Works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Carlo Carrá, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Piet Mondrian and Paul Klee demonstrate how artists made a study of Pointillism during the 20th century. Vincent van Gogh contributed to the way that modernist painters abandoned Pointillism. More than 100 selected works, including paintings, watercolours and drawings, illuminate the dawn of a new era which this art movement was responsible for bringing about: the beginning of modern painting.

RO80146292. Picasso et les Maîtres. Album de l'exposition.. Sept. 2008. In-4. Broché. Très bon état, Couv. fraîche, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 47 pages. Nombreuses illustrations en couleurs, dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 708-Galeries, musées, collections d'art