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Pablo Picasso 1881-1973
Genius of the Century
by Carsten-Peter Warncke, Ingo F. Walther, Pablo Picasso
One name in the history of the 20th century art stands out over all others: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). As painter, graphic artist and sculptor, he displayed an inventive enterprise and innovative bravado that always kept him one step ahead of his contemporaries. As one of them, the painter Max Ernst, ruefully put it: "No one can touch Picasso. He is genius incarnate." The works selected here cover Picasso's entire... (more)
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Anholt's Artists
Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail
by Laurence Anholt
Here is the fascinating story -- based on true fact -- of a world-famous artist and a little girl who became one of his models. Sylvette first met Picasso in 1954, when she was a girl in the southern French town of Vallauris. At that time, she was the shyest and dreamiest girl among her friends, though today, she is a respected artist in her own right. When Picasso set up his studio in a nearby house, he spotted... (more)
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Picasso & Lump: A Dachshund's Odyssey
by Pablo Picasso, David Douglas Duncan
One spring morning in 1957, veteran photojournalist David Douglas Duncan paid a visit to his friend and frequent photographic subject Pablo Picasso, at the artistÕs villa near Cannes. As copilot alongside Duncan in his Mercedes Gullwing 300 SL was the photographerÕs dachshund, Lump. Photographer and dog were close companions, but DuncanÕs nomadic lifestyle and his other dog Ñ a giant Afghan hound who had tormented... (more)
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When Pigasso Met Mootisse
by Nina Laden
Pigasso, a talented pig, and Mootisse, an artistic bull, live across the road from one another, but when conflicts arise they build fences that ultimately become modern art masterpieces. Includes biographies of the real-life artists, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
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Picasso (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)
by Gertrude Stein
Intimate, revealing memoir of Picasso as man and artist by influential literary figure. Highly readable amalgam of biographical fact, artistic and aesthetic comments: Picasso as founder of Cubism, associate of Apollinaire, Braque, Derain, other notables; titanic, creative spirit. One of Stein’s most accessible works. 61 black-and-white illustrations. Index.
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Life with Picasso
by Françoise Gilot
At 21, Gilot met 62-year-old Picasso. For nearly a decade, she shared her life with this complex artist, giving birth to two of his children. In her recollections, she describes the exuberant, if exhausting, world they knew together. 10 photos.
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Picasso
Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man
by Norman Mailer
Probes the soul and the early years of the passionate Picasso, revealing the artistic genius, rogue, insatiable lover, and determined fighter always ready for new challenges, accompanied by 250 illustrations, in an original and unforgettable portrait of a revolutionary creator. Reprint. PW.
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Everybody Was So Young
Gerald and Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Story
by Amanda Vaill
Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were icons of the most enchanting period of our time; handsome, talented and wealthy expatriate Americans, they were at the very center of the literary scene in Paris in the 1920s. In Everybody Was So Young — one of the best reviewed books of 1995 — Amanda Vaill brilliantly portrays both the times in which the Murphys lived and the fascinating friends who... (more)
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The Ultimate Picasso
by Pablo Picasso, Brigitte Le?al
Of all the books on the man many consider the greatest genius of 20th-century art, the sumptuous hardcover volume published by Abrams in 2000 stands out as truly the "ultimate" Picasso. This new paperback edition includes everything in the previous book, in a smaller, reader-friendly format. It covers in one volume all the periods of Picasso's long, incredibly versatile career, with exquisite reproductions of... (more)
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Painting with Picasso
by Pablo Picasso, Suzanne Bober, Julie Merberg
New board books in the best-selling Mini Masters series feature beautiful paintings from Cassatt and Picasso and rhyming text introducing budding artists to these famous masters.
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Picasso
The Sculptures
by Werner Spies
For years Pablo Picasso's sculptural oeuvre was one of the best-kept secrets of 20th century art. It was only through retrospectives in Paris, London and New York during the 1960's that Picasso the sculptor became known to a larger public-who discovered a complexity and variety in his sculptures that easily rivals that of his paintings and drawings. Pablo Picasso: The Sculptures is catalogue raisonn of Picasso's... (more)
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Profiles in History
Guernica and Total War
by Ian Patterson
One of the most horrific innovations of the twentieth century was the deliberate strategy of total warfare--the obliteration of entire civilian populations. The first and in many ways the most striking use of this extreme measure came nearly 70 years ago when the ancient Basque hilltop town of Guernica was destroyed by the bombs of the German Condor. Ian Patterson begins with a graphic account of what... (more)
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Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
by Tom Robbins
Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government; a pacifist who carries a gun; a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy; a cyberwhiz who hates computers; a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school-age stepsister (only to become equally enamored of a nun ten years his senior). Yet there is nothing remotely wishy-washy about... (more)
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written.
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Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays
Picasso at the Lapin Agile / The Zig-Zag Woman / Patter for a Floating Lady / WASP
by Steve Martin
Steve Martin is one of America's most treasured actors, having appeared in some of the most popular moves of our time. He is also an accomplished screenwriter who has in the past few years turned his hand to writing plays. The results, collected here, hilariously explore serious questions of love, happiness and the meaning of life; they are rich with equal parts of pain and slapstick humour, torment and wit.
Le Musee PicassoMarie-Laure Besnard-Bernadac
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Le Musee Picasso
by Marie-Laure Besnard-Bernadac
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Picasso's Vollard Suite (Painters & Sculptors)
by Pablo Picasso
"Picasso's most memorable etchings...an extremely important as well as moving group of pictures." — Art Review "As a graphic artist, Picasso never rose to greater heights...Picasso at his most classical, his most personal, most touching."— Sunday Telegraph The 100 superb etchings made by Picasso between 1930 and 1937 for the great art critic and dealer Ambroise Vollard, who commissioned and published them,... (more)
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Picasso & Things
by Pablo Picasso, Jean Sutherland Boggs
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... (more)
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Picasso Bon Vivant
by Ermine Herscher, Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso's love of food profoundly affected his life and art. Picasso Bon Vivant tells the stories behind the artist's favorite meals in Spain, Paris, and the Midi. The regional fare of cafes and bars, and the elaborate dinners prepared by his wives and friends find their way into this fascinating account that includes 50 recipes. 140 illustrations, 40 in color.
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Picasso: A Day in His Studio (Art for Children)
by Ve?ronique Antoine, Pablo Picasso
A boy explores Picasso's studio and learns about the artist's background and work.

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