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VERVE Nos 29-30. Suite de 180 dessins de Picasso. Vol. VIII. 28 Novembre 1953 au 3 Février 1954. First edition.
16-6276Paris: Editions de la Revue Verve 1954. Small foliio. 26.5 x 36cm. Original boards with design by Picasso. Tiny tears on spine edge. Slight crack inside the gutter.omplete with the 180 plates some in color printed by Mourlot and Draeger. Very good. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 23431099. This edition features accompanying words by Rebecca West and the Surrealist writer and poet Michel Leiris.In September 1954 Tériade published a double issue of Verve dedicated to Picasso and illustrating one hundred and eighty drawings by the master the present work included which were drawn in Vallauris that winter between 28 November 1953 and 3 February 1954. The rich publication reproduced each work in the exact size and chronological order of the original drawings so as to preserve the integrity of the suite. Tériade remarked that this collection of drawings was Picasso's "finest boldest and most poignantly human of all he has produced in the course of his long and brilliant career" E. Tériade ed. op. cit. n.p.At the time Picasso began this series in November 1953 Françoise Gilot had just deserted him taking their two children with her and leaving him alone as an abandoned man. Deeply hurt he shut himself away in his vacant villa in Vallauris and frantically produced the 180 drawings which represent “. the diary not verbal but visual of a detestable ‘season in hell’ a crisis in his personal life which led him to question everything.†ibid.These works address the central theme of the painter and his model of a man and a woman of the subject and the object handled in a style which is burlesque comic grotesque even caricatured. Some ironically incorporate subjects linked to the world of the circus the monkey the acrobat the clown.The year of this publication 1954 marked the death of Picasso's artistic rival but great friend Henri Matisse and his passing considerably affected Picasso who in some way relied on their competition as a catalyst. With this new absence of living rivalry Picasso was inspired to interact with the artists of the past more than ever continuously holding conversation with historical masters through his own new bold interpretations. Paris: Editions de la Revue Verve, 1954 hardcover
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