Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée par la National Portrait Gallery, à Londres, du 6 octobre 2016 au 5 février 2017, puis par le Musée Picasso, à Barcelone, du 17 mars au 25 juin 2017.
" Une exposition conjointe de la National Portrait Gallery de Londres et du Musée Picasso de Barcelone met en lumière l'importance du portrait dans l’œuvre de Picasso. Tout au long de sa vie, il a réalisé des portraits de ses proches, utilisant tous les médiums et magnifiant ce genre par son inventivité. "
" From first to last, Picasso’s prime subject was the human figure and portraiture remained a favourite genre. His earliest portraits were done from life and reveal a precocious ability to catch likeness and suggest character and state of mind. By 1900 Picasso was producing portraits of astonishing variety and thereafter they reflected the full range of his innovative styles – symbolist, cubist, neoclassical, surrealist, expressionist. But however extreme his departure from representational conventions, Picasso never wholly abandoned drawing from the sitter or ceased producing portraits of classic beauty and naturalism.
(...) The focus of this book is not, however, Picasso’s life story but his creative process, and, although following a broadly chronological path, its chapters are structured thematically. "
Londres, National Portrait Gallery, 2018, 23 x 28,5 cm, cartonnage, jaquette illustrée, 256 pages.
9781855147607
/978-1-855-14760-7
TEXTE EN ANGLAIS
librairie couleur du temps, national portrait gallery, picasso, picaso, portrait, espagne,
