Picasso : the self-portraits / Pascal Bonafoux ; translated from the French by Bethany Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonafoux, Pascal, author.

Contributor:

Wright, Bethany, translator.

Standardized Title:

Picasso par Picasso. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973--Criticism and interpretation.

Picasso, Pablo.

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973--Self-portraits.

Self-portraits, Spanish.

Self-portraits, French.

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2023.

Language Note:

In English, translated from French.

Summary:

"Much has been said and written about Picasso's life and art, but until now his self-portraits have never been studied and presented in a single book, perhaps because the artist always left many doubts about his work. However, there is no doubt that Picasso represented himself ceaselessly, whether in a dashed-off pencil sketch, as a flourish at the bottom of a letter, or on a giant canvas. At the suggestion of Picasso's widow Jacqueline, the distinguished art historian Pascal Bonafoux began researching Picasso's self-portraits more than forty years ago. This meticulously researched book presents the fruits of his decades-long project. From the first attributed painting in 1894 as a thirteen-year-old boy, until Picasso's final self-portrait in 1972, a year before his death, Bonafoux charts the evolution of the artist's life and art. Here is Picasso as a student; as a young bohemian; an impetuous artist in Paris; as harlequin; as lover, husband and father; and finally, as an old man confronting his mortality. The book comprises about 170 drawings, paintings and photographs, some from private collections and previously unpublished, bringing together for the first time the attributed self-portraits of this genius of 20th-century art."-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Over to you!

The self-portraits.

Notes:

Originally published as: Picasso par Picasso. Paris, Éditions du Seuil, ©2021.

This translation first published in London by Thames & Hudson in 2022 and in the United States of America by Thames & Hudson, New York, in 2023.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-219).

Contains:

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973. Works. Selections

ISBN:

9780500025833

0500025835

OCLC:

1344291989