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PICASSO.- DAIX, Pierre:
Picasso.
Paris, Aimery Somogy, 1982, in-4to, 143 p., nombreuses ill., reliure en toile originale sous jaquette illustrée.
Reference : 68902aaf
Joint à ce volume: JOURET, Jean: Picasso, dessins, Paris, Editions des deux mondes.
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"APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUME - PICASSO (ILLUSTR.) - JEAN COCTEAU - LÉON BAKST - SERGE DIAGHILEV.
Reference : 60103
(1917)
BALLETS RUSSES. PROGRAMME. PARIS 1917. Les Ballets Russes a Paris. Représentations Exceptionelles avec le gracieux Concours des Artistes de M. Serge de Diaghilew. - Programme des Ballets Russes. Les Ballets Russes à Paris. Saison - Mai 1917. [Guillau... - [HAND-PAINTED BY PICASSO - COINING ""SURREALISM""]
Paris, Mai 1917. Folio. Original illustrated extra wrappers (with a picture by Picasso on the front and the décor for ""Baba Iaga"" on the back)"" original illustrated wrappers for ""Théatre du Chatelet"" (drawing by André Marty on front, and advertisements on back) in grey and red"" original illustrated coloured wrappers for ""Programme des Ballets Russes"" (front wrapper illustrated by Picasso with the Chinaman-costume from ""Parade""). A bit of soiling to the extra-wrappers and small professional restorations to upper front cover and top of spine (this barely noticeable) as well as to blank margin of back wrapper. Apart from that, an excellent and very well perserved copy with only slight browning to some leaves. Apart from the described wrappers and extra-wrappers, there are, in all, 24 leaves with -mostly photographic- illustrations (four of them with original hand-colouring on top) and 6 leaves of text.With the original errata-leaf laid in loose, stating also that the illustrations ""Femmes de bonne humeaur"" and ""Parade"" have been hand-painted by Carlos Socrate, after the designs of Bakst and Picasso, and that the front wrapper for ""Parade"" (the Chinaman) has been handpainted by Picasso himself.
Scarce original printing of this seminal avantgarde-publication, the May 1917 ""Théatre du Chatelet""- publication that presents Diaghilev's ""Ballets Russes"" in Paris - here containing the entire separate publication mainly devoted to Jean Cocteau's groundbreaking ballet ""Parade"" - being one of the most important publications in the history of modern art. It is here, in his presentation-article to ""Parade"" that Apollinaire coins the term ""surrealism"" and thus lays the foundation for the seminal cultural movement that Bréton came to lead. Furthermore, the ballet ""Parade"" represents a historical collaboration between several of the leading artistic minds of the early twentieth century: Erik Satie, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Léonide Massine, and Serge Diaghilev, and is famous, not only for its contents and its music, but also for its magnificent costumes designed by Picasso, the drawings of which are presented in the present publication for the first time - most famously the front cover for the ""Parade""-programme, which depicts the ""Costume de Chinois du ballet ""PARADE""/ Aquarelle de Picasso"", an etching with original, stunning pochoir-colouring (hand-painted by Picasso himself!).It is the 1917 ballet ""Parade"" - the first of the modern ballets - originally presented for the first time in the present publication, that marks Picasso's entry into the public and bourgeois institutions of ballet and theatre and presents Cubism on the stage for the first time. The present publication constitutes an outright revolution in the history of art, theatre, and ballet.Several variants of this spectacular publication exist, but the one we have here is as original and complete as it comes, containing the entire contents of the different variants. We not only have the extremely scarce and fragile dust-wrapper and the equally scarce illustrated coloured double-wrappers (front: ""Peinture de Picasso"""" back: Décor de Larionow pour le ballet ""BABA IAGA""""), but also the entire 1917 ""Théatre du Chatelet""-programme (in original illustrated wrappers) with the entire separate ""parade""-issue -also entitled ""Programme des Ballets Russes""- (also in original illustrated wrappers), with more than 20 leaves of photographic illustrations containing pictures of the actors and actresses, also in their spectacular avant-garde-costumes, Bakst's portrait of Leonide Massine, Picasso's portrait of Stavinski, Bakst's portrait of Picasso, Picasso and Massine in the ruins of Pompei, Picasso's drawings of a scene from ""Parade"" and of Massine, as well as several (mostly humorous) advertisements. But more importantly, we have, apart from the above-mentioned famous Chinaman by Picasso, in original pochoir-colouring, the other famous etching by Picasso ""Costume d'acrobate du ballet ""Parade""/ Aquarelle de Picasso"", also in original pochoir-colouring (bright blue), the seminal presentation-article by Apollinaire, which coins the term ""surrealism"" (see bottom of description for full translation of this groundbreaking preface), the two ""Les Femmes de Bonne Humeur""-figures by Bakst, Constanza and Battista, printed and heightened in gold (pochoir), the printed costume by Larionow, ""Les contes russes"", which is with original bright red and blue pochoir-colouring, and the ""Le Mendiant""-costume by Bakst for ""Parade"", and, of course, the texts by Bakst (on choreography and décor), Georges-Michel (Ballets Russes after the War), as well as the texts for the various ballets (listing the actors and their rôles as well as a resume of the plot). "" ""Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far."" Jean Cocteau, poet, writer, and arts advocate, made this statement in his 1918 manifesto, The Cock and Harlequin. Cocteau, in collaboration with Erik Satie and Pablo Picasso, discovered ""how far"" to ""go too far"" in the circus-like ballet Parade-one of the most revolutionary works of the twentieth century. Parade incorporates elements of popular entertainment and uses extra-musical sounds, such as the typewriter, lottery wheel, and pistol, combining them with the art of ballet. Cocteau wrote the scenario for the one-act ballet and contracted the other artists. Satie wrote the score to the ballet, first in a piano four-hands version and then in full orchestration, while Picasso designed the curtain, set, and costumes. Later, Léonide Massine, a dancer with the Ballet Russes, was brought in as the choreographer. Serge Diaghilev's Ballet Russes premiered the ballet Parade on May 18, 1917. The program notes for the ballet were written by the poet Apollinaire. They became a manifesto of l'esprit nouveau or ""the new spirit"" which was taking hold in Paris during the early twentieth-century. Apollinaire described the ballet Parade as ""surrealistic,"" and in doing so created a term which would develop into an important artistic school."" (Tracy A. Doyle, Erik Satie's ballet PARADE, p. 1).When the French poet and army officer Guillaume Apollinaire wrote the program notes For ""Parade"", he created the manifesto of the ""l'esprit nouveau"" - ""the new spirit"". Cocteau had called the ballet ""realistic"", but Apollinaire took it an important step further and described it as ""surrealistic"", thus coining a term that would soon develop into an important artistic movement. With Picasso, Apollinaire had established the aesthetic principals of Cubism and was considered a leader in the European avant-garde. ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF APOLLINAIRE'S PROGRAMME NOTES TO ""PARADE"": ""Definitions of Parade are blossoming everywhere, like the lilac bushes of this tardy spring...It is a scenic poem transposed by the innovative musician Erik Satie into astonishingly expressive music, so clear and simple that it seems to reflect the marvelously lucid spirit of France. The cubist painter Picasso and the most daring of today's choreographers, Léonide Massine, have here consummately achieved, for the first time, that alliance between painting and dance, between the plastic and mimetic arts, that is a herald of the more comprehensive art to come. There is nothing paradoxical about this. The Ancients, in whose lives music played such an important role, were totally unaware of harmony, which constitutes the very basis of modern music. This new alliance - I say new, because until now scenery and costumes were linked only by factitious bonds - has given rise, in Parade, to a kind of surrealism, which I consider to be the point of departure for a whole series of Manifestations of the New Spirit that is making itself felt today and that will certainly appeal to our best minds. We may expect it to bring about profound changes in our arts and manners through universal joyfulness, for it is only natural, after all, that they keep pace with scientific and industrial progress. Having broken with the choreographic tradition cherished by those who used to be known, in Russia, under the strange name 'balletomanes', Massine has been careful not to yield to the temptation of pantomime. He has produced something totally new-a marvelously appealing kind of dance, so true, so lyrical, so human, and so joyful that it would even be capable (if it were worth the trouble) of illuminating the terrible black sun of Dürer's Melancholy. Jean Cocteau has called this a realistic ballet. Picasso's cubist costumes and scenery bear witness to the realism of his art. This realism - or this cubism, if you will - is the influence that has most stirred the arts over the past ten years. The costumes and scenery in Parade show clearly that its chief aim has been to draw the greatest possible amount of aesthetic emotion from objects. Attempts have often been made to return painting to its barest elements. In most of the Dutch painters, in Chardin, in the impressionists, one finds hardly anything but painting. Picasso goes further than any of them. This is clearly evident in Parade, a work in which one's initial astonishment is soon replaced by admiration. Here the aim is, above all, to express reality. However, the motif is not reproduced but represented-more precisely, it is not represented but rather suggested by means of an analytic synthesis that embraces all the visible elements of an object and, if possible, something else as well: an integral schematization that aims to reconcile contradictions by deliberately renouncing any attempt to render the immediate appearance of an object. Massine has Adapted himself astonishingly well to the discipline of Picasso's art. He has identified himself with it, and his art has become enriched with delightful inventions, such as the realistic steps of the horse in Parade, Formed by two dancers, one of whom does the steps of the forelegs and the other those of the hind legs. The fantastic constructions representing the gigantic and surprising features of The Managers, far from presenting an obstacle to Massine's imagination, have, one might say, served to give it a liberating impetus. All in all, Parade will change the ideas of a great many spectators. They will be surprised, that is certain" but in a most agreeable way, and charmed as well Parade will reveal to them all the gracefulness of the Modern movements, a gracefulness they never suspected. A magnificent vaudeville Chinaman will make their imaginations soar" the American Girl cranking up her imaginary car will express the magic of their daily lives, whose wordless rites are celebrated with exquisite and astonishing agility by the acrobatin blue and white tights.""
Pablo Picasso - Linocuts. - [PICASSO'S FAMOUS LINOCUTS]
London, Thames and Hudson, 1963. Folio-oblong (340 x 400 mm). In the original clothbinding with black printed Picasso-drawings on front board. Housed in the original slipcase. Slipcase with some wear and stains, otherwise very nice and clean. (14) pp. + 45 linocuts by Picasso.
The uncommon and exquisitely printed “Linocuts” by Picasso, which marked the beginning a new period for him as an artist. The prints were made by carving away part of the surface of a sheet of linoleum then inking and printing the remaining surface. Picasso began creating linoleum cuts to give color a more prominent role in his graphic work having previously considered it a secondary medium. His linoleum cuts emerged from a desire to adapt previous artistic concepts to a new medium and he quickly achieved original results that were not secondary to his pervious works. Inspired by memories of bullfighting from his youth in Arles and Nimes Picasso focused on this theme in his linoleum cuts produced in the fall of 1959. Despite not having seen bullfights in Spain for many years, he felt their influence after the town of Vallauris allowed bullfighting under revised rules in 1954. “Just how and when Picasso became attracted by the linoleum technique is not known. Perhaps it was like the instance of the year 1957, when he capriciously finished his “L’ Arlésienne* with pigeon feathers picked up from the floor of his home “La Californie.” It must be assumed, aware as we are of Picasso’s working methods, that his interest in linoleum technique was derived from some insignificant yet real incident, as well as from a response to a deep artistic need. The smooth and supple drawings in India ink and lithograph pencil for the “Tauromaquia”, which set the tone for the subsequent linoleum cuts, reveal a difference, something remarkably new and fresh. The ink drawings, particularly, point the way to heavy and unmodeled designs which are more crisp and more succinct (their similarity with a silhouette-like effect is certainly significant). When he began the series of linoleum cuts, the artist was already prepared with a wide range of procedures that would adjust his subjects to the flat, extended areas that are inherent in this medium. Although Picasso had made only a few woodcuts in the past, he immediately adopted a resolute and robust approach to the new technique and interpreted in the widest possible way the rules of carving such an easily yielding material. Formal principles that embody lines and surfaces, as well as pictorial and decorative elements, are freely applied to create prints that are sometimes produced from a combination of several individual color blocks or, more often, from a single linoleum block that was cut and recut. Others, browns, and blacks, reminiscent of Greek vase painting, became the dominating color scheme, permitting a limited range of color variations. As usual, Picasso intuitively developed techniques which exhausted the medium.” (From the introduction to the present work)
Pour la paix. Illustré par Picasso.
<p>À travers une sélection d’une trentaine de poèmes de Paul Eluard, illustrés de dessins de Picasso, ce coffret rend hommage à ces deux immenses artistes du xxe siècle, à leur engagement pour la paix, universelle et plus que jamais nécessaire. « Lorsque se déroule dans ma mémoire le long film de l’œuvre de Picasso, je suis toujours frappé d’admiration par l’enthousiasme, le travail, l’incessant mouvement d’un homme dont le message restera, j’en suis persuadé, “le meilleur témoignage que nous puissions donner de notre dignité”. L’enthousiasme de Picasso ne se ralentit jamais. C’est sa force et son secret. Chaque pas en avant lui découvre un nouvel horizon. Le passé ne le retient pas ; le monde s’ouvre à lui, un monde où tout est encore à faire et non à refaire… « C’est ainsi que Picasso est lié à l’histoire éternelle des hommes. Tels sont les mots magnifiques et poignants de Paul Eluard pour dire son amitié à Pablo Picasso. Une amitié qui débute en 1935, lors de leur première rencontre et qui va durer seize ans, jusqu’à la mort d’Éluard, en 1952. Une amitié de toute une vie, créatrice, qui va engendrer une véritable émulation, une fraternité, un engagement. Entre ces deux hommes, tout converge : un même goût pour la poésie, l’art, une même vision de la création artistique, un même style de vie. Dès les années 1920, Paul Eluard collectionnait déjà des œuvres de Picasso, mais c’est au milieu des années 1930 que leur amitié s’affirme. Ils se retrouvent dans les actions collectives du mouvement surréaliste, partagent une même passion pour l’art moderne et la poésie, s’engagent contre le fascisme et pour la liberté des peuples, pour la paix. Cet engagement va nourrir la poésie d’Eluard et l’art de Picasso, dans un dialogue riche et ininterrompu : l’un écrit les plus beaux poèmes pour la paix, indissociables de ses poèmes d’amour, l’autre dessine des colombes dans de multiples variations. Car dans la Bible, cet oiseau annonce à Noé la fin du Déluge en lui apportant un rameau d’olivier. Sublime emblème de la paix, la colombe représente la fin du chaos. Cet engagement pour la paix et la liberté trouvera son ultime expression en 1951, lors de la publication du recueil Le Visage de la paix. À travers une sélection d’une trentaine de poèmes de Paul Eluard, illustrés de dessins de Picasso, ce coffret, rend hommage à ces deux immenses artistes du xxe siècle, à leur engagement pour la paix, universelle et plus que jamais nécessaire. « Je connais tous les lieux où la colombe loge Et le plus naturel est la tête de l’homme. « L’homme en proie à la paix se couronne d’espoir. « L’architecture de la paix Repose sur le monde entier. </p> Paris, 2018 Hazan 224 p., 2 volumes sous emboîtage. 19 x 24
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Catalogue de l'exposition au Musée Granet à Aix-en-Provence du 09 juin au 23 septembre 2018 et à la Fondation MAPFRE à Barcelone du 12 octobre 2018 au 13 janvier 2019.
Reference : 21394
ISBN : 9782757214138
Picasso Picabia. La peinture au défi.
<p>Dans une éphémère feuille dada intitulée La Pomme de Pins, Picabia affirmait en 1922 : « Picasso est le seul peintre que j'aime . S'agit-il là d'une nouvelle illustration de la force d'attraction et de l'influence prépondérante de Picasso sur un artiste du XXe siècle ? Unis par des origines méridionales communes, l'Espagnol Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) et le Français de père hispano-cubain Francis Picabia (1879-1953), furent plus proches que ce que l'histoire en a retenu - et cela, pour une raison au moins : goûtant la même liberté d'expérimentation en art, leurs carrières respectives, pour différentes qu'elles soient, ne furent qu'une longue rupture avec l'idée même de style - cette soi-disant marque « unique du créateur dans l'art occidental. Avec Picasso et Picabia, les métamorphoses de soi sont érigées en mode de vie. « Un peintre, disait Picasso, ne doit jamais faire que ce que les gens attendent de lui. Le pire ennemi d'un peintre, c'est le style . Picasso et Picabia ne firent effectivement jamais ce que l'on attendait d'eux. Cette exposition est organisée dans le cadre de « Picasso-Méditerranée , manifestation culturelle internationale qui se tient de 2017 à 2019. Plus de soixante institutions ont imaginé ensemble une programmation autour de l'oeuvre « obstinément méditerranéenne de Pablo Picasso. À l'initiative du Musée national Picasso-Paris, ce parcours dans la création de l'artiste et dans les lieux qui l'ont inspiré offre une expérience culturelle inédite, souhaitant resserrer les liens entre toutes les rives. </p> Paris, 2018 Somogy 280 p., 250 ill. couleur, relié. 24 x 28
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Vie de Picasso: Vol.I (1881-1906).
<span>From 1950 to 1962, John Richardson lived near Picasso in France and was a friend of the artist. With a view to writing a biography, the acclaimed art historian kept a diary of their meetings. After Picasso's death, his widow Jacqueline collaborated in the preparation of this work, giving Richardson access to Picasso's studio and papers. <br><br>Volume one of this extraordinary biography establishes the complexity of Picasso's Spanish roots; his aversion to his native Malaga and his passion for Barcelona and Catalan "modernisme". Richardson introduces new material on the artist's early training in religious art; re-examines old legends to provide fresh insights into the artistic failures of Picasso's father as an impetus to his sons's triumphs; and includes portraits of Apollinaire, Max Jacob and Gertrude Stein, who made up "The Picasso Gang" in Paris during the "Blue" and "Rose" periods.</span> Paris, 1991 Editions du Chêne. 548 p., illustré, relié toile. 21 x 26
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