How would you like to buy a catalog of Pablo Picasso‘s works that he helped create? You, art fanatic, can buy this 33-volume set for only $25,000. Christian Zervos, founder of the journal Cahiers d’art, worked on the Picasso catalog for years with the artist. The magazine was published from 1926 to 1960 with an…
A few shorter videos about Picasso follow. If you go to YouTube, you can view many hour-long and longer videos about Picasso. Enjoy. One of Picasso‘s muses for a time was Sara Murphy: A short video about Picasso‘s portrait of Gertrude Stein: Picasso at work: A trailer from the new season of Genius on the…
Xavier is the Catalan spelling of Javier, just so you know. Xavier Vilató was Pablo Picasso’s nephew. His mother was Picasso’s sister, Lola. In 1909, Lola Picasso had married a psychiatrist, Juan Bautista Vilató Gómez, son of a professor of neurobiology from Barcelona. Together, they had six children, two of which were also artists. Xavier…
In 1927, Marie Thérèse Walter was only 17 when she was approached by Picasso in front of the Galeries Lafayette in Paris. At the time, Picasso was married to Olga Kokhlova and had a small son named Paulo. Picasso and Walter’s affair was kept quiet for a time, but then Olga caught on to the…
Saint-Paul de Vence is a small village up from the French Riviera in southeastern France. Don’t confuse this village with the larger town of Vence. This village is famous for one of its hotels named La Colombe d’Or. Nearby is a modern art museum/foundation called the Fondation Maeght. This foundation holds a vast collection of…
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