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Editore: Random House, 1991
ISBN 10: 0679764216ISBN 13: 9780679764212
Da: Remarks Used Books, Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Paperback Edition, 2nd printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Near Fine condition. "John Richardson draws on his close friendship with Picasso and unprecedented access to the Picasso archives to shape a monumental, enthralling account of the artist's life and work. Volume I explores Picasso's Spanish roots, his intensely Andalusian nature, and his passion for Barcelona, where he became a hero of the Catalan modernista movement before moving to France in 1904. Richardson's chronicle of Picasso's early years in Paris, which encompassed the Blue and Rose periods, includes revealing accounts of the artist's complex relationships with Apollinaire, Max Jacob, and Gertrude Stein. More than 900 illustrations provide a running commentary on every page." [publisher's copy] "Richardson gives a richly informed and lucid account of the dynamics of Picasso's growth, neither sparing his failures nor losing sight of his quintessential Spanishness. The story pulls like a locomotive."---Robert Hughes, Time. "Richardson's LIFE OF PICASSO is so absorbing and stimulating, so detailed and so evenhanded, that it should remain the standard biography for many years to come. The book gives a clearer idea of who Picasso was, and how he lived and developed as an artist, than anything else that has been written about him. Richardson integrates his discussion of individual paintings into a nearly seamless narrative account of Picasso's life, and manages to accomplish the ultimate in biographical legerdemain: to treat the life and the work equally."---Jack Flam, New York Review of Books. Pristine paperback w/tiny curl to upper-corner front cover, o/w brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. 548 pp w/extensive Notes & Index. Quite (heftily) presentable.
Editore: Jonathan Cape, London, 1996
ISBN 10: 0224031201ISBN 13: 9780224031202
Da: The Glass Key, Montmorillon, Francia
Libro Prima edizione
Hardback. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First Edition. First impression. 4to (262 x 204mm). Pp ix + 500 with b&w illustrations throughout. Grey cloth boards stamped in black on the spine and burgundy on the upper panel. Previous owner's initials neatly in ink on the front free endpaper else a clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in a price-clipped dust jacket.
Editore: Random House, NY, 1991
ISBN 10: 0679764216ISBN 13: 9780679764212
Da: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Softcover. Condizione: VG. 1st Paperback Edition. Blue wraps. 548 pp. Numerous bw plates.
Editore: NY. 2007. A.A. Knopf, 2007
Da: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
large speckled white hardbound 4to ~ 4º (quarto). large book. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. remainder copy in very fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. red ink dot on bottom, other edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean remainder copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining. first edition so stated. first printing (NAP). b&w photo frontis. xiv+592p. 48 pages of full color glossy full page plates. b&w photos & illustrations throughout. short titles (bibliography). notes. index. biography. art history. european history. ~ The long~awaited third volume of John Richardson's definitive biography of Pablo Picasso combines the critical astuteness, exhaustive research, and stunning narrative that made the first two volumes an art~historical breakthrough as well as a pleasure to read. The Triumphant Years takes up the artist's life in 1917, when Picasso and Cocteau left wartime Paris for Rome to work with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes on their revolutionary production of Parade. Visits to Naples, above all to the Farnese marbles in the Museo Nazionale, would leave Picasso with a lifelong obsession with classical sculpture as well as the self~referential commedia dell' arte. After returning to Paris and marrying one of Diaghilev's ballerinas, Olga Khokhlova, he abandoned bohemia for the drawing rooms of Paris. Hence, his so~called Duchess period, which coincided with his switch to neoclassicism, and would ultimately be absorbed into a metamorphic form of cubism. In the summer of 1923, Picasso and his American friends Gerald and Sara Murphy transformed the French Riviera from a winter into a summer resort, when they persuaded the proprietor of the Hotel du Cap at Antibes to keep the place open for the summer. In doing so, they made the Riviera Europe's major playground. Mediterraneanism was in Picasso's bones. Born in Malaga, he would always identify with this inland sea. In 1927 the artist's life underwent a major change; he abandoned society for a life out of the spotlight with a beautiful seventeen~year~old girl, Marie~Therese Walter. His erotic obsession with Marie~Therese would result in an ever~growing antipathy for his neurasthenic, understandably jealous wife. Balletic clues have enabled Richardson to identify a number of baffling figure~paintings as portrayals of Olga and reinterpret the work of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Picasso's passionate love for his mistress and his passionate hatred for his wife can be fully understood only in light of each other. The last three chapters constitute an annus mirabilis~spring 1931 to spring 1932~during which the artist celebrated his fiftieth birthday. Challenged to scale new heights by the passage of time, Picasso lived up to his shamanic belief that painting should have a magic function. In the course of this year, he reinvented sculpture an to a great extent his own imagery in a bid Picassify the classical tradition. The resultant retrospective in Paris and Zurich in the summer of 1932 confirmed PIcasso as the leader of the modern movement.
Editore: Jonathan Cape 1996, 1996
Da: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Nuova Zelanda
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
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Editore: Random House, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0394531922ISBN 13: 9780394531922
Da: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. 1st. Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards, spine stamped in black. Ex library with no markings. Pocket removed from rear paste down endpaper.