Picasso the foreigner : an artist in France, 1900-1973 / Annie Cohen-Solal ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen-Solal, Annie, 1948- author.

Contributor:

Taylor, Sam, 1970- translator.

Standardized Title:

Étranger nommé Picasso. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973.

Picasso, Pablo.

Expatriate artists--France--Biography.

Expatriate artists.

Artists--Spain--Biography.

Artists.

Noncitizens--France--Biography.

Noncitizens.

France.

Spain.

French literature--Translations into English.

French literature.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 588 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Other Title:

Artist in France, 1900-1973

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

Language Note:

Text in English, translated from the French.

Summary:

"A groundbreaking new study of Pablo Picasso that reveals how the artist fought to overcome the stigma he faced as a foreigner in France"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Into the labyrinth of Paris : 1900-1906

Leading the avant-garde : 1906-1923

The all-powerful police, a distraught artist : 1919-1939

Five years at the edge of the precipice : 1939-1944

The artist as hero : 1944-1973

Epilogue : the Mediterranean as his kingdom : 1955-1973.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I INTO THE LABYRINTH OF PARIS: 1900-1906

1. With the Catalans of Montmartre

2. The moving walkway and the "genius of France"

3. "The ride from coach driver Becker remains unpaid"

4. Finot, Foureur, Bornibus, and Girofle, police chief Rouquier's informants

5. The "mysterious looks" of anarchists

6. "A blind man sitting at a table"

7. The Bateau-Lavoir and other disgraceful lodgings

8. Letters from Maria: The adoring mother and the golden boy

9. Montmartre bars and Belleville Apaches

10. "Any man who takes his mother's name is headed to ruin "

11. On the side of the saltimbanques, with "the greatest of living poets"

12. A story of mantillas and fans

13. "Millions of feet above sea level" Gosol!

14. "A tenor who sings a note higher than the one written in the score: Me!"

15. Sixty world leaders visiting the Bateau-Lavoir

pt. II LEADING THE AVANT-GARDE: 1906-1923 The advent of strategy: 1906-1914

16. "Profoundly sculptural work!"... Vincenc Kramar

17. The mystery of 28 Rue Vignon... Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

18. Return to the Bateau-Lavoir

19. A duet of revolutionary virtuosos Picasso and Braque, Braque and Picasso: First and second movements

20. "A botanist [looking] at the flora of an unknown land" Leo Stein

21. "As perfect as a Bach fugue" Alfred Stieglitz

22. "Knee to knee," portrait to portrait. Gertrude Stein

23. "Only Paris was our country" Rupf, Uhde, Hessel, and even Dutilleul!

24. A duet of revolutionary virtuosos Picasso and Braque, Braque and Picasso: Third movement

25. 28 Rue Vignon, a distinctly subversive gallery

26. Charlatan or genius? Picasso all over the place

27. Gutenberg 21-39: From one business card to another: Andre Level, acts I and II

28. "A splendid series. Free and joyous as never before"

Dismantling the Picasso international: 1914-1923

29. With the women, the retirees, and the expatriates

30. Toward a new transnationalism

31. Art dealers in wartime: Between patriotism, perfidy, and denunciation

32. A collateral victim of Germanophobic hysteria

33. "Counting the hours": Notre-Dame de Paris, the Emmanuel bell, and the Picasso international

pt. III THE ALL-POWERFUL POLICE, A DISTRAUGHT ARTIST: 1919-1939

Prologue: Like a smashed mosaic

34. Mercurial designer (from the Ballets Russes to society balls)

35. Artist-magician (in the orbit of the surrealist international)

36. Sculptor, Minotaur, devoted artist

37. Poet and political artist (with the Spanish Republicans)

Epilogue: On Alfred Barr's diagram

pt. IV FIVE YEARS AT THE EDGE OF THE PRECIPICE: 1939-1944

Prologue: In the heart of darkness

38. Taking shelter

39. Surviving: August 25, 1940-December 1941

40. Playing with fire: January 1942-July 1944

41. Working

42. Finding his place, in a different way

Postscript

43. Judgment time, part I: Brigadier Chevalier's purification trial: Paris, June 27, 1945

44. Judgment time, part II: Committees for the Confiscation of Illicit Profits

pt. V THE ARTIST AS HERO: 1944-1973

45. The view from New York? Adolf Hitler's sworn enemy

46. The view from Moscow? Franco's sworn enemy

47. The view from Saint-Etienne, Nice, Ales, Aubervilliers? Benefactor of the working classes

48. The view from Ceret, Grenoble, Lyon, Antibes? The artist-prophet

49. The view from Paris? "Genius" (finally) recognized by the State: 1947-1955

50. The "Great Stalin" versus "Comrade Picasso"?

EPILOGUE: THE MEDITERRANEAN AS HIS KINGDOM: 1955-1973

51. From police chief Rouquier to J. Edgar Hoover

52. An apprentice ceramist in a potter's village

53. Experimentation and productivity

54. The apprentice turned leader

55. From the color line to the subaltern world

56. An honorary citizen who never forgot the hardship of the winter of 1907-1908

57. Integration, influence, and subversion in Cannes, Vauvenargues, and Mougins

58. Old debates revived

59. Portrait of the "old master" as a meteque (metic).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-561) and indexes.

"Originally published in French in 2021 by Librairie Arthème Fayard, France, as Un Étranger nommé Picasso" -- From title page verso.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Ashjean fund bookplate.

Related Work:

Translation of: Cohen-Solal, Annie, 1948- Étranger nommé Picasso.

ISBN:

9780374231231

0374231230

OCLC:

1310766556