Luxuriously designed by Hans F. Kammermann with large tipped-in colour plates, accompanying essays examining Picasso's late works which at the time were often dismissed. Gallwitz re-evaluates Picasso’s late career as a period of great innovation.
“Since dialogue plays such an important part in the evolution of Picasso's paintings, he usually has difficulty in deciding how to finish them. The notion of completeness is incompatible with his constant urge to continue. He is always thinking of still another accent or improvement he might add. Finality seems to frighten him, because he associates it with the finality of death. Fear of death is as strong in Picasso as his sense of the preciousness of time. Hence he often finishes a painting only to continue it in a subsequent one. This is especially true during the last two decades, and accounts for the great serial works of his late period.”
Title: Picasso at 90: The Late Work
Authors: Gallwitz, Klaus
Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London
Publication date: 1971
Language: English
Format: publisher’s original cloth boards in illustrated dust jacket
Pages: 221pp.
Images: illustrated in colour and b/w
Condition: Pages clean and bright, boards and binding tidy. Dust jacket condition: Fair, with chips and losses, slightly marked in places and reinforced with brown paper.
Stock Number: RB05706 255
Luxuriously designed by Hans F. Kammermann with large tipped-in colour plates, accompanying essays examining Picasso's late works which at the time were often dismissed. Gallwitz re-evaluates Picasso’s late career as a period of great innovation.
“Since dialogue plays such an important part in the evolution of Picasso's paintings, he usually has difficulty in deciding how to finish them. The notion of completeness is incompatible with his constant urge to continue. He is always thinking of still another accent or improvement he might add. Finality seems to frighten him, because he associates it with the finality of death. Fear of death is as strong in Picasso as his sense of the preciousness of time. Hence he often finishes a painting only to continue it in a subsequent one. This is especially true during the last two decades, and accounts for the great serial works of his late period.”
Title: Picasso at 90: The Late Work
Authors: Gallwitz, Klaus
Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London
Publication date: 1971
Language: English
Format: publisher’s original cloth boards in illustrated dust jacket
Pages: 221pp.
Images: illustrated in colour and b/w
Condition: Pages clean and bright, boards and binding tidy. Dust jacket condition: Fair, with chips and losses, slightly marked in places and reinforced with brown paper.
Stock Number: RB05706 255
