Picasso
Subtitle: painting the blue period
By: [curators, Susan Behrends Frank & Kenneth Brummel ; essays by Kenneth Brummel, Susan Behrends Frank, Patricia Favero [and 3 others] ; edited by Kenneth Brummel and Susan Behrends Frank]
Contributors: Brummel, Kenneth, curator, contributor, editor; Frank, Susan Behrends, curator, contributor, editor; Favero, Patricia, contributor; Art Gallery of Ontario; Phillips Collection
Publisher: DelMonico Books · D.A.P.; Art Gallery of Ontario; Yayun; DelMonico Books/Art Gallery of Ontario/The Phillips Collection
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York; Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781942884927
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Exhibitions; Criticism and interpretation; French Painting; Artists; Biography
Other titles: Painting the blue period
Description: "This lavishly illustrated volume reexamines Pablo Picasso's famous Blue Period (1901-04) in paintings, works on paper and sculpture. Relying on new information gleaned from technical studies performed on The Blue Room (Le Tub) (1901), Crouching Beggarwoman (La Miséreuse accroupie) (1902) and The Soup (La Soupe) (1903), this multidisciplinary volume combines art history and advanced conservation science in order to show how the young Picasso fashioned a distinct style and a pronounced artistic identity as he adapted the artistic lessons of fin-de-siècle Paris to the social and political climate of an economically struggling Barcelona. Essays, a chronology and a summary of conservation findings contextualize Picasso's experimental approach to painting during the Blue Period. A major contribution to the burgeoning field of technical art history, Picasso: Painting the Blue Period advances new scholarship on one of the most critical episodes in 20th-century modernism"--publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, from 9 October 2021 to 16 January 2022 and at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., from 26 Febrary to 12 June 2022.