Picasso In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art

Edited by Gary Tinterow and Susan Alyson Stein; Essays and entries by Magdalena Dabrowski, Lisa M. Messinger, Asher Ethan Miller, Marla Prather, Rebecca A. Rabinow, Sabine Rewald, Samantha Rippner, and Gary Tinterow; Technical notes by Lucy Belloli, Shawn Digney-Peer, Isabelle Duvernois, Rachel Mustalish, and Kendra Roth This landmark publication presents for the first time a comprehensive catalogue of the works by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) in the Metropolitan Museum. Comprising 34 paintings, 58 drawings, a dozen sculptures and ceramics, and more than four hundred prints, the collection reflects the full breadth of the artist's multi-sided genius as it asserted itself over the course of his long and influential career. Notable for its remarkable constellation of early figure paintings, which include the commanding At the Lapin Agile (1905) and the iconic portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906), the Museum's collection also stands apart for its exceptional cache of drawings, which despite their importance and number remain relatively little known. The key subjects that variously sustained Picasso's interest-the pensive harlequins of his Blue and Rose periods, faceted tabletops of his Cubist years, classicising bathers and dreaming nudes of the 1920's and 30's, and the rakish musketeers of his maturity- are amply represented by works ranging in date from a dashing self-portrait in watercolour of 1900 to the fanciful image he painted of himself as a faun more than a half-century later. An overview of the collection's history; entries on nearly one hundred works that incorporate the latest technical and documentary findings and furnish a full record of the provenance, exhibition history,and references for each object; and an essay and illustrated checklist of the prints are also included in this illuminating and handsomely illustrated volume. 376 pages, 663 illustrations (340 in full colour, 323 in black and white). 9'' x 12''. Paper or Hardcover; clothbound, with jacket.