Jean Sutherland Boggs war eine angesehene Kunsthistorikerin, die für ihre Forschungen über Degas bekannt war. Ihre Karriere widmete sie der Kuratierung und Leitung bedeutender Kunstinstitutionen. Ihr Einfluss reichte von kunsthistorischer Forschung bis zur Leitung wichtiger kultureller Bauprojekte. Boggs hinterließ ein Vermächtnis tiefen künstlerischen Verständnisses und Führungsqualitäten bei der Gestaltung der Kulturlandschaft.
This book includes seventy reproductions of pastels from various collections worldwide as well as essay with historical context,and the working methods and materials that Degas employed, focusing on innovative techniques that incorporated the use of fixative and of the pastel medium wet.
''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