• monograph
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 26 x 21 cm.
  • 548 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0394531922

A Life of Picasso

[First Edition] / Vol. 1, 1881 - 1906

Pablo Picasso, John Richardson, Marilyn McCully

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Comprehensive monograph on Pablo Picasso by John Richardson, with contributions by Marilyn McCully. "This first volume of Richardson's prodigiously detailed and documented four-volume study takes Picasso to the age of twenty-five. It reveals how the adolescent Picasso struggled, through determination and study, to escape the shadow of his father's artistic failures. It describes his precocious success in Barcelona and Paris and the period of rejection and despair that followed. We watch Picasso transform the prostitutes of the Saint-Lazare prison into Blue period madonnas and, later, the performers of the Montmatre circuses into Rose period harlequins. Volume I culminates in Picasso's dawning perception of himself as the messiah of the modern movement. Some nine hundred illustrations, many of them unfamiliar, enable the reader to follow Picasso's mesmerizing development in images as well as words. " -- from interior flap. Includes family tree, bibliography, and index. Printed in black-and-white.

New York, NY: Random House,
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