Life With Picasso by Francoise Gilot - Francoise Gilot met Picasso during the German occupation of Paris, she was twenty-one, he was sixty-two. For nearly a decade, Gilot shared her life with this giant of the art world, giving birth to two of his children, working as his model, and sharing his world. This uniquely candid and vivid memoir takes readers behind the Piccasso legend to meet the man.
The Museum of Texas Tech University is pleased to announce the opening of the important exhibition Picasso: 25 Years of Edition Ceramics from the Edward & Ann Weston Collection on Sunday, September 1. The exhibition will be on display in Gallery 1 through November 4, 2001. The Museum is located at Fourth Street and Indiana Avenue in Lubbock, Texas. The exhibition and tour were organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions of Los Angeles, California. The exhibition at the Museum is underwritten, in part, by the Helen Jones Foundation, Inc., and the Lubbock Arts Alliance.
The exhibition began its national museum tour in September 1999 with a presentation at the Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum of California State University at San Bernardino. This special exhibition presents a selection of the beautiful edition ceramics created by Pablo Picasso, one of the masters of 20th century art, in collaboration with George and Suzanne Ramie, and the artisans at their Madoura pottery workshop at Vallauris in Southern France between the years 1947 and 1971.
Featured in the exhibition are 65 ceramic works: plates, bowls, vases, pitchers, and plaques; and posters from previous Picasso ceramics exhibitions in Europe. Also included are photos of Picasso at work at Madoura, and text panels with the exhibition essay and a Picasso chronology by exhibition curator Gerald Nordland.
Internationally famed for his paintings, sculpture, and graphics, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was long intrigued by ceramics. From 1947 to 1971, the Ramies set aside space in their studio for Picasso to pot whenever he pleased. Picasso personally made thousands of individual ceramic pieces. He kept virtually all of his own thrown pieces, most of which are now owned by his family or by museums. Over the years the Madoura studio produced 633 different Picasso plates, bowls, vases, and pitchers in limited editions ranging from 25 to 500 copies. Picasso's involvement in producing the objects varied. Sometimes he made the clay molds used for designs, while other times he painted on plates or pitchers taken from the drying racks. Picasso and Madoura's artisans then finished the prototypes and produced the editions.
October 17, 2000 - Erotic Art by Picasso Donated to Exibition
David and Leslee Rogath, owners of Martin Lawrence Galleries, are loaning an original work by Pablo Picasso to a major exhibition, Picasso Erotique, jointly organized by MNR/Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, and Barcelona's Museu Picasso. Created in 1969 the work is especially noteworthy as it is double-sided, with an image recto, Etreinte/Homme et Femme nus, as well as one verso, Tête d'homme (Zervos 31, 173 &174). Both are executed in India ink.
"Art is never chaste." This salient quote from the Antonina Vallentin biography, Picasso, is offered by the exhibition's organizers as its conceptual cornerstone. Picasso drew from an erotic vernacular expressed by artists from ancient times through the Renaissance and on to the contemporary works of such immediate predecessors as Delacroix, Manet, Courbet and Cézanne. This important exhibition will explore eroticism as a constant and essential source of inspiration in Picasso's work. In total, the exhibition encompasses close to 300 paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and ceramic works.
To bring focus to the subjects of Picasso's work in the erotic dimension, the exhibition uses the temporal focus of three distinct periods: 1901-1907, Picasso's early years of exploit, both in Barcelona and then through the first years in Paris, where brothels and sexual initiation figure centrally; 1927-1936/7, the years of Picasso's romantic affair with the youthful and beautiful Maria-Thérèse Walther, and his meeting Dora Maar on the eve of the Second World War; and 1960 on, when an aging Picasso presents fantasy, often humorously and with self-portrayals of the artist-voyeur in various guises.
In recent years, Martin Lawrence Galleries owners David and Leslee Rogath have loaned art by Pablo Picasso as well as by such artists as René Magritte, Sam Francis, Andy Warhol and Marc Chagall to major museums worldwide including the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, the Royal Museum of Brussels and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.
The exhibition Picasso Erotique will be mounted at three successive venues from February 2001 through January 2002 - at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris from February 14th to May 20th, 2001; at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal from June 14th to September 16th , 2001; and at the Museu Picasso in Barcelona from October 25th, 2001 to January 25th, 2002.
The Ultimate Picasso - Of all the books on the man many consider the greatest genius of 20th-century art, this sumptuous work stands out as truly the "ultimate" Picasso. Not only does it cover in one volume all the periods of Pablo Picasso's long, incredibly versatile career-with exquisite reproductions of nearly every significant work he ever created-but the scholarship is impeccable: each of the three authors is a leading authority on a particular period of Picasso's artistic evolution. Brigitte Léal covers Picasso's formative years from 1881 through 1916, including his invention of Cubism with Georges Braque. Christine Piot explores the astonishingly fertile period from 1917 through 1952. Marie-Laure Bernadac discusses the unabashed vigor of Picasso's later years, from 1953 until his death in 1973. Nearly 1,200 magnificent reproductions, 720 in full color, illustrate Picasso's breathtaking range of artistic expression. Picasso once boasted that a book would have to be written on him every day to keep up with his creative surges. Perhaps. But for art lovers and students seeking just one book, The Ultimate Picasso is unsurpassed.