"Picasso says..." followed by "Picasso in the square".
The Belles Lettres.| N° d'inventaire | 31544 |
| Format | 12.5 x 19 |
| Détails | 400 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2025 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251200330 |
"I am writing this book haphazardly, reflecting on thoughts, memories, and gifts. The demands of truth mean that I continually make myself appear in it, and in the position of interlocutor.
Too bad. That's what allows me to write this book, and to say not what Picasso is: but how he appears to me, not what I know: but what I see, not what I imagine he puts into his painting: but what we can deduce from his position with regard to painting from the way he lives with it. » Hélène Parmelin (extract from the self-preface)
Journalist, novelist, art critic , Hélène Parmelin (1915-1998) was born in Nancy into a family of Russian Jewish revolutionaries. She joined the Communist Party in 1944, held important positions in Humanity and became the companion of the painter Edouard Pignon, one of Picasso's few close friends. With Pignon, she made very frequent stays with the creator of Young Ladies of Avignon with whom she in turn became a friend and to whom she dedicated several books which are all irreplaceable testimonies showing us Picasso "in the flesh". A signatory of the "Manifesto of the 121", she condemned the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the USSR in 1968 and ended up, with Pignon, leaving the Communist Party in 1980."
"I am writing this book haphazardly, reflecting on thoughts, memories, and gifts. The demands of truth mean that I continually make myself appear in it, and in the position of interlocutor.
Too bad. That's what allows me to write this book, and to say not what Picasso is: but how he appears to me, not what I know: but what I see, not what I imagine he puts into his painting: but what we can deduce from his position with regard to painting from the way he lives with it. » Hélène Parmelin (extract from the self-preface)
Journalist, novelist, art critic , Hélène Parmelin (1915-1998) was born in Nancy into a family of Russian Jewish revolutionaries. She joined the Communist Party in 1944, held important positions in Humanity and became the companion of the painter Edouard Pignon, one of Picasso's few close friends. With Pignon, she made very frequent stays with the creator of Young Ladies of Avignon with whom she in turn became a friend and to whom she dedicated several books which are all irreplaceable testimonies showing us Picasso "in the flesh". A signatory of the "Manifesto of the 121", she condemned the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the USSR in 1968 and ended up, with Pignon, leaving the Communist Party in 1980."