Picasso. The Man of a Thousand Masks.
Somogy| N° d'inventaire | 21367 |
| Format | 24 x 31 |
| Détails | 238 p., color ill., cloth bound under dust jacket. |
| Publication | Paris, 2006 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782850569845 |
On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of Picasso's birth, a powerful dialogue between primitive art and the creations of the major 20th-century artist. An extraordinary confrontation: Picasso's art illuminated by masterpieces from pre-Columbian America, Africa, and Mediterranean Antiquity, from the Barbier-Mueller Museums in Barcelona and Geneva. An Iberian stone head, dating from the 4th-3rd century BC, which inspired a wooden head sculpted by the artist in 1907—the year the famous Demoiselles d'Avignon were painted—a nimba mask from Guinea, the direct source of the famous plaster heads, portraits of Marie-Thérèse Walter...
On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of Picasso's birth, a powerful dialogue between primitive art and the creations of the major 20th-century artist. An extraordinary confrontation: Picasso's art illuminated by masterpieces from pre-Columbian America, Africa, and Mediterranean Antiquity, from the Barbier-Mueller Museums in Barcelona and Geneva. An Iberian stone head, dating from the 4th-3rd century BC, which inspired a wooden head sculpted by the artist in 1907—the year the famous Demoiselles d'Avignon were painted—a nimba mask from Guinea, the direct source of the famous plaster heads, portraits of Marie-Thérèse Walter...