Picasso's Women: Fernande to Jacqueline

Picasso's Women: Fernande to Jacqueline by Gagosian, Larry. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780847868179.

A tribute to the renowned Picasso biographer Sir John Richardson (1924-2019), whose intimate account of the artists life forever changed the understanding of Picassos art. "The inspiration of nearly all his work comes from his daily life," the acclaimed Picasso biographer John Richardson wrote of the artist in 1962. This was nowhere more true than in Picassos portraits of women. This volume traces the artists depictions of eight women who played a prominent role in the artists life and art: Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova Picasso, Sara Murphy, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot, Sylvette David, and Jacqueline Roque Picasso. Each woman served as a catalyst for experiments in color and form that would continue to change as the contours of the relationship shifted. It is through this process that Picassos work was constantly reinvented and renewed. Published in association with an exhibition organized in honor of the late art historian and biographer, this book features reproductions of thirty-six paintings and sculptures; an extensive two-part newspaper article by Richardson written in 1962, "Picasso in Private"; and an illustrated chronology of the extraordinary exhibitions of Picassos work curated by Richardson at Gagosian between 2009 and 2018.