The Success and Failure of Picasso

ILLUSTRATIONS

a. Picasso: Self-Portrait, autumn 1906 (Musée Picasso, Paris)

1 Château de Boisgeloup, Normandy

2 Picasso and Françoise Gilot at Golfe Juan, 1948 (photo: Robert Capa)

3 Picasso: An Old Man, 1895 (private collection)

4 Spanish landscape (photo: Jean Mohr)

5 Spanish peasants harvesting peppers (photo: Jean Mohr)

6 Easter procession in Lorca (photo: Jean Mohr)

7 Spanish peasants returning from market (photo: Jean Mohr)

8 Barcelona, Las Ramblas (photo: Jean Mohr)

9 Picasso: Head of a Horse, 1937 (on extended loan to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from the artist)

10 Rubens: Christ Crucified Between Two Thieves, 1620 (Antwerp)

11 Picasso: Portrait of Artist’s Father, 1895

12 Picasso: Portrait of Artist’s Mother, 1895

13 Picasso: The Coiffure, 1954 (Rosengart collection)

14 Picasso: Jacqueline with Black Scarf, 1954 (private collection)

15 Picasso: Seated Woman, 1955 (Rosengart collection)

16 Braque: Studio, VIII, 1954–55 (Douglas Cooper collection)

17 Braque: The Bird and Its Nest, 1955–56

18 Picasso: Self-Portrait, 1901 (private collection)

19 Picasso: The Frugal Meal, 1904

20 Picasso: Clown with a Glass (self-portrait), 1905 (private collection)

21 Picasso: Family of Saltimbanques, 1905 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Chester Dale collection)

22 Picasso: Acrobat’s Family with Ape, 1905 (Gothenburg Art Gallery)

23 Picasso: Still-life with Chair-caning, 1912 (private collection)

24 Fra Angelico: The Vocation of St Nicholas (detail), 1437 (Vatican Museum)

25 Picasso: The Fruit-dish, 1912 (private collection)

26 Courbet: Les Demoiselles des bords de la Seine, 1856 (Petit Palais, Paris)

27 Courbet: The Pond, 1860s (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

28 Poussin: Orpheus and Eurydice, 1650 (Louvre, Paris)

29 Cézanne: Trees by the Water, 1900–04 (private collection)

30 Braque: Bottle, Glass, and Pipe, 1913 (Lady Hulton collection)

31 Picasso: Portrait of Monsieur Kahnweiler, 1910 (courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago)

32 Gris: Portrait of Picasso, 1911–12 (courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. Gift of Leigh Block)

33 Robert Delaunay: The Eiffel Tower, 1910 (Guggenheim Museum, New York)

34 Roger de la Fresnaye: Conquest of the Air, 1913 (Museum of Modern Art, New York, Mrs Simon Guggenheim Fund)

35 Carlo Carra: The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli, 1911 (Museum of Modern Art, New York, Lillie P. Bliss Bequest)

36 Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907 (Museum of Modern Art, New York, Lillie P. Bliss Bequest)

37 Cézanne: Les Grandes Baigneuses, 1898–1906 (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

38 Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907 (Museum of Modern Art, New York, Lillie P. Bliss Bequest)

39 Braque: Nude, 1907–8 (Madame Cuttoli collection)

40 Picasso: Landscape with Bridge, 1908 (National Gallery, Prague)

41 Braque: Houses at Estaque, 1908 (Rupf Foundation, Berne)

42 Picasso: Girl with a Mandolin, 1910 (private collection, New York)

43 Braque: Girl with a Mandolin, 1910 (private collection)

44 Picasso: The Violin, 1913 (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

45 Picasso: Curtain for Parade, 1917 (Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris)

46 Gris: The Violin, 1915 (Kunstmuseum, Basle)

47 Picasso: Olga Picasso in an Arm-chair, 1917 (private collection)

48 Picasso: Bathers, 1921

49 Picasso as a matador, 1924 (photo: Man Ray)

50 Ingres: Drawing, 1828

51 Picasso: Madame Wildenstein, 1918 (Daniel Wildenstein collection)

52 Picasso: Women at the Fountain, 1921

53 Poussin: Eliezer and Rebecca (detail), 1648

54 Picasso: Bull’s Head, 1943

55 Picasso: Bull, Horse, and Female Matador, 1934

56 Picasso: Sitting Girl and Sleeping Minotaur, 1933

57 Schiele: Seated Male Nude (self-portrait), 1910

58 Picasso: Nude on a Black Couch, 1932 (Mrs Meric Gallery, Paris)

59 Poussin: The Triumph of Pan, 1638–9 (Louvre, Paris)

60 Picasso: Bacchanale, 1944 (private collection)

61 Picasso: The Mirror, 1932 (private collection)

62 Picasso: Weeping Head, 1937 (on extended loan to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from the artist)

63 Picasso: Figure, 1939 (Othmar Huber collection, Glarus, Switzerland)

64 Picasso: Triptych, 1946 (Musée Grimaldi, Antibes)

65 Picasso: Joie de vivre, 1946 (Musée Grimaldi, Antibes)

66 Giovanni Bellini: The Feast of the Gods, 1514 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Widener collection)

67 Picasso: Massacre in Korea, 1951

68 Picasso: Peace, 1952 (Temple de la Paix, Vallauris, France)

69 Titian: Shepherd and Nymph, c. 1570 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

70 Léger: Composition aux deux perroquets, 1935–9 (Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris)

71 Delacroix: Horse Frightened by a Storm, 1824 (National Museum, Budapest)

72 Brancusi: The Bird, 1915 (Museum of Modern Art, New York)

73 Brancusi in his studio, 1946 (photo: Wayne Miller)

74 Picasso: Illustration to Aimé Césaire’s Corps perdu, 1950

75 Piero di Cosimo: The Immaculate Conception (Uffizi, Florence)

76 Piero di Cosimo: The Finding of Vulcan on Lemnos (Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut)

77 Picasso: The Race, 1922 (private collection)

78 Picasso: Figure, 1927 (private collection)

79 Picasso: Woman in an Arm-chair, 1929 (private collection)

80 Picasso: Girls with a Toy Boat, 1937 (Peggy Guggenheim collection, Venice)

81 Picasso: Guernica (detail), 1937 (on extended loan to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from the artist)

82 Picasso: Nude Dressing Her Hair, 1940 (Mrs Bertram Smith collection)

83 Picasso: Nude with a Musician, 1942 (Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris)

84 Picasso: First Steps, 1943 (Yale University Art Gallery)

85 Picasso: Portrait of Mrs H.P., 1952 (private collection)

86 Van Gogh: Portrait of the Chief Superintendent of the Asylum at Saint-Remy, 1889 (Mrs Dübi-Müller collection)

87 Picasso: Nude on a Black Couch, 1932 (Mrs Meric Gallery, Paris)

88 Picasso: The Mirror, 1932 (private collection)

89 Picasso: Woman in a Red Arm-chair, 1932 (reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees of the Tate Gallery, London)

90 Picasso: Nude, 1933

91 Picasso: Head of Woman (bronze), 1931–2 (private collection)

92 Picasso: Sculptor and Model Resting, 1933

93 Picasso: Page of drawings, 1936

94 Picasso: Head of a Woman, 1943

95 Picasso: Young Girl and Minotaur, 1934–5

96 Picasso: Guernica, 1937 (on extended loan to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from the artist)

97 Siqueiros: Echo of a Scream, 1937 (Museum of Modern Art, New York gift of Edward M. M. Warburg)

98 Picasso: Bull, Horse, and Female Matador, 1934

99 Picasso: Crying Woman, 1937

100 Picasso: Still-life with Bull’s Skull, 1942 (the estate of André Lefèvn collection)

101 Picasso: Dove (poster)

102 Delacroix: Les Femmes d’Alger, 1834 (Louvre, Paris)

103 Picasso: Les Femmes d’Alger, 1955

104 Velázquez: Las Meninas, 1656 (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

105 Picasso: Las Meninas, 1957

106 Picasso: Bullfight, 1934 (Victor W. Ganz collection)

107 Picasso: Nude and Old Clown, 21 December 1953

108 Picasso: Young Woman and Old Man with Mask, 23 December 1953

109 Picasso: Young Woman and Monkey, 3 January 1954

110 Picasso: Young Woman and Cupid with Mask, 5 January 1954

111 Picasso: Young Woman with Cupids, 5 January 1954

112 Picasso: Girl, Clown, Donkey, and Monkey, 10 January 1954

113 Picasso: Old Clown and Couple, 10 January 1954

114 Picasso: Couple with Masks, 24 January 1954

115 Picasso: Old Man and Young Woman with Masks, 25 January 1954

116 Picasso: Girl, Clown, Mask, and Monkey, 25 January 1954

117 Picasso: Painter and Model, 24 December 1953

118 Picasso: Painter and Model, 25 December 1953

119 Picasso: Woman, Apple, Monkey, Man, 26 January 1954

120 Picasso: Woman and Monkey Painting, 10 January 1954

121 Tintoretto: Woman with Bare Breasts (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

122 Giorgione: Old Woman, c. 1569 (Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice)

123 Titian: Vanity of the World, 1515 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich)

124 Picasso: Nu couché, 5 October 1972 (Musée Picasso, Paris)