Prints from the Norton Simon Museum

Hardcover - 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.8 inches - 176 pages - published by Stanford University, Museum of Art

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One hundred and twenty prints by Picasso from the collection of the Simon Norton Museum are presented in this highly readable, fully illustrated, and scholarly catalogue which accompanies the exhibition at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, at the Toledo Museum of Art, and at the Simon Norton Museum.

The prints include highlights from all major areas of Picasso''s graphic work, and are presented here in rare depth. Picasso''s formidable printmaking accomplishments cover a range of activity in varied techniques from 1905 to 1970. The prints of 1905 through the 1920s show an initial exploration of themes that he developed in more complex form in later prints, drawings and paintings. During the 1930s Picasso became fully engaged in etching, creating three important suites: Ovid''s Metamorphoses; Balzac''s Le chef d''oeuvre inconnu; and the Suite Vollard, which reshapes and intertwines the thems of the first two suites in a prolonged meditation on the artist and his model.

Each of the five essays in this book focuses on a particular aspect of Picasso''s printmaking activity, beginning with Betsy Fryberger''s overview of his prodigious and onnovative practices. Gloria Williams describes the method of Simon Norton''s collecting of Picasso prints. Clinton Adams, an expert practitioner of lithography, explains the technique of the innovative lithographs of the late 1940s. Pat Gilmour analyzes and documents Picasso''s attention to his mistress Marie-Theres Walter. David Carrier writes of performance and the artist as performer.

ISBN: 978-0937031131

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