John Richardson (2) (1924–2019)

no es el periodo mas interesante de la vida de picasso. tampoco creo que sea el volumen mejor escrito de los tres que ha sacado richardson. pierde tiempo en correcciones a otros historiadores que me parecen revanchistas. pero richardson es un narrador excelente y es evidente que es una eminencia en el tema. el libro hay que verlo en relacion al proyecto, y el proyecto es monumental. ah, who am i kidding, el score se lo doy por que el tema me fascina.

The catalog to an international art sensation - a once in a lifetime event of Picasso's most prolific creative period - show opening at the Gagosian Gallery in London, June 2010. This volume features 3 single and 4 double gatefold illustrations and includes a detachable 23-page booklet of Picasso's pencil and ink drawings.

During the decade after the end of World War II Picasso began to spend more and more time in the Cote d'Azur where he began drawing on the Mediterranean sources that had show more inspired him in earlier years. Picasso's return to the south marked a return to a family life as well - which in turn inspired him in the studio. In the 1950s his sculpture work evolved and he expanded into ceramics, lithography, printing and graphic design techniques. This latest Picasso exhibition from the Gagosian Gallery features a more private side to these prolific years - a dazzling coming together paintings, sculptures, prints and ceramics - many provided by of the pieces by Picasso's grandson, Bernard Ruiz-Picasso and curated by Mr. Ruiz-Picasso and Picasso's acclaimed biographer, Sir John Richardson.

Gagosian:
This book was published on the occasion of Picasso: The Mediterranean Years (1945–1962) at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London. The exhibition, which was curated by Picasso biographer Sir John Richardson with the artist’s grandson Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, featured paintings, sculptures, prints, and ceramics. It focused on the postwar years in which Pablo Picasso began to spend more time on the Cote d’Azur, marking a return to a family life, and to the Mediterranean setting that had nourished some of his most important stylistic changes in the past.

The extensively illustrated book features a foreword by Larry Gagosian and essays by Elizabeth Cowling, on Picasso’s postwar sculpture and ceramics, and Claude Arnaud, on Picasso’s inspiring friendship with Jean Cocteau. It also includes selections from Cocteau’s diary and a selective chronology of the period covered by the exhibition compiled by Michael Cary and Cristina Colomar. Further, in addition to numerous photographs and color reproductions, it contains three single and four double gatefold illustrations as well as a twenty-three-page booklet reproducing pages from Picasso’s 1956 notebook added as a tip-in. show less

This is not a review, but a remark.

Picasso is well limned here, that is fine. The thing that comes off as petty is how Richardson incessantly bad-mouths Gertrude Stein. Richardson is of the camp of believers for whom Gertrude was a fraud, while Leo Stein was the real genius. I do not share this view.

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