Pablo Picasso Libros

Six thousand paintings, twelve thousand drawings, eight hundred sculptures...show the extraordinary creativity of Picasso who had the ability to simultaneously use multiple artistic languages without incurring contradictions and display his constant and inexhaustible inventiveness.

Artwork by Pablo Picasso. Contributions by Felix Reusse. Text by Erich Franz, Henri Deschamps.

The career of the greatest painter of the twentieth century was played out in the shadow of Eros -- and of Thanatos. At the age of eight Picasso's first drawings already displayed a precocious interest in the female form, and in the days leading up to his death he was still working obsessively on sketches of the female sex. At the turn of the century the young Picasso created drawings and watercolors inspired by the bordellos of Barcelona which he frequented. These works mix desire, fascination, but also comedy and the grotesque alongside the ever-present fear of disease. They would result, seven years later, in his masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. The works in this ground-breaking book include erotic drawings formal and informal, sketches in notebooks hidden in drawers and private collections, and occasionally paintings and sculptures. Through all these works the essays by an international team of scholars, analyse the primeval notion of desire in Picasso's work, as well as his relation to voyeurism and exhibitionism, to artist and model. Whether through playful or hallucinatory forms, Picasso's representation of the desiring and desired body has become a pivotal moment in the history of twentieth-century art. Produced to accompany a major exhibition in Paris, Montreal and Barcelona, Picasso Erotique is a unique examination of the central theme in Picasso's work.

Wir setzen die erfolgreiche Reihe dieser intimen Künstlerzeugnisse mit einem Meister des 17. und einem des 20. Jahrhunderts fort. Die Sketchbooks zeigen die großen Meister von einer weitgehend unbekannten Seite. Auch Rembrandt hat eine ganze Reihe höchst erotischer Zeichnungen und Radierungen angefertigt. Picassos legendäre Zeichenkunst ist Spiegelbild seines von Sinnlichkeit geprägten Lebens. Die schönsten Arbeiten der beiden so gegensätzlichen Künstler werden in einer Buchform präsentiert, die dem ursprünglichen Skizzenbuch sehr nahe kommt und in der Hand des Lesers wie ein „Original“ anmutet. Ein intimer Blick über die Schulter der Malergenies und ein Muss für Graphik- und Erotiksammler.