john richardson collaboration marilyn mccully (7 résultats)

Softcover. Etat : VG. 1st Paperback Edition. Blue wraps. 548 pp. Numerous bw plates.

Hardback. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : 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.

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.

THIS VOL ONLY, OWNERSHIP OF SUE CRAWFORD, imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) archival tape repairs to jacket, underlining & annotation in pencil; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Original cloth. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+. First Edition; Second Impression. Original black cloth binding with original printed dustjacket. With plates throughout. Slight shelfwear. Volume 3 only. ; 23.5x19x4.5 cm; 592 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. A very smart copy of the first volume in John Richardson's definitive biography of Picasso. He explores the early life and artistic beginnings of Pablo Picasso. The book follows his childhood in Spain, his move to Barcelona and Paris, and the evolution of his work during the Blue and Rose periods. Drawing on extensive research, Richardson examines the people, places, and experiences that shaped Picasso's early vision, offering context to his developing style and ambition. This first volume presents a detailed account of the young artist's world, setting the stage for his later influence on modern art. A Life of Picasso, Volume I; 1881-1906, by John Richardson, with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully. Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1991. First edition, first impression. A near fine grey cloth hardback with a printed translucent dustjacket. The grey cloth of the hardback also has a printed front cover and titles to spine. The book looks unread. Soundly bound. The jacket has some small signs of wear - a few small nicks to extremities. Text is bright and clean throughout. There is a light discolored 3.5cm long  stain on the top edge of text block (otherwise not affecting the text pages). Well illustrated throughout. A most attractive book. Text in English. ix + 548pp. Dimensions: approximately 261mm  x 218mm x 43mm. Weight: Approximately 1931g (unpacked).

Hardcover. Etat : Near fine. Etat de la jaquette : 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.