Picasso's World of Children

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Even those who think they are thoroughly acquainted with the work of Pablo Picasso will be surprised and enchanted by this collection of almost two hundred of his pictures of children. For more than sixty-five years -except during his Cubist Period- Picasso has made wonderful pictures of children-children nursing, eating, sleeping, laughing, squalling, romping, dreaming. Here in everv médium from oil and pencil to gouache and ceramic are pensive circus children, whirling dancers in a ronde des enfants, haunting figures from the Blue Period, children seen as Harlequin or Pierrot, the shattered images of the Guernica period, tender children with doves that symbolize peace. Here are children with brooding mothers, mammoth mothers, supremely gentle mothers. ( Continued on back flap )
( Continued from front flap ) Here in a chapter called " Family Gallery" are the paintings and sketches -almost all of which Picasso keeps for himself-that he has made of his own children: Paulo, Maya,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Even those who think they are thoroughly acquainted with the work of Pablo Picasso will be surprised and enchanted by this collection of almost two hundred of his pictures of children. For more than sixty-five years -except during his Cubist Period- Picasso has made wonderful pictures of children-children nursing, eating, sleeping, laughing, squalling, romping, dreaming. Here in everv médium from oil and pencil to gouache and ceramic are pensive circus children, whirling dancers in a ronde des enfants, haunting figures from the Blue Period, children seen as Harlequin or Pierrot, the shattered images of the Guernica period, tender children with doves that symbolize peace. Here are children with brooding mothers, mammoth mothers, supremely gentle mothers. ( Continued on back flap )
( Continued from front flap ) Here in a chapter called " Family Gallery" are the paintings and sketches -almost all of which Picasso keeps for himself-that he has made of his own children: Paulo, Maya, Claude and Paloma. This book is overwhelming testimony not only to Picasso's boundless creativity and the fountain-like flow of his fancy but to his love of life. No other collection exhibits more richly the rangé, trom pure whimsy to tragic awareness, of this man who is more and more often called the greatest artist of our time. The entire book was engraved and printed in the finest sheet-fed gravure in Switzerland. Mrs. Kay, who assembled the pictures, has added a series of perceptive and informed comments on them. Vissza