Picasso was one of the most innovative, experimental, prolific, influential, and controversial painters of the twentieth century. This updates and re-designed version of the big-size book published on the year 2000, this small-size Picasso. The Monograph 1881-1973 offers more than 1200 new-scanned reproductions spanning the artist s entire career.The three authors are all experts: Léal and Bernadac both former curators of the Musée Picasso in Paris are, at this time and respectively, curators of the Centre Pompidou and the Louvre Museum, and Piot co-authored the catalogue raisonné of Picasso s sculpture. They clearly explain visual sources, duly acknowledge leading art historians interpretations, and choose good quotes from contemporaries. Brigitte Leal covers Picasso s formative years from 1881 through 1916, including his invention of Cubism with Georges Braque. Christine Piot explores the astonishingly fertile period from 1917 through 1952, and Marie-Laure Bernadac discusses the unabashed vigour of Picasso s later years, from 1953 until his death in 1973. ILLUSTRATIONS 1235 images *
