Art of the 20th Century




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Pablo Picasso

by Carsten-Peter Warncke


The Image of the Artist  1881-1973
The Making of a Genius  1890-1898
The Art of Youth  1898-1901
The Blue Period  1901- 1904
The Rose Period  1904-1906
In the Laboratory of Art  1906-1907
Analytical Cubism  1907- 1912
Synthetic Cubism  1912-1915
The Camera and the Classicist  1916-1924
A Juggler with Form  1925-1936
War, Art and "Guernica"  1937
The Picasso Style  1937-1943
Politics and Art  1943-1953
The Presence of the Past  1954- 1963
The Case of "Las Meninas"  1957
The Old Savage  1963-1973
The Legend of the Artist

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appendix:

Pablo Picasso - Erotic Drawings 1968-1972
Pablo Picasso and his Women
 

  



Pablo Picasso and his Women


 

The Artist and his Models



(1881-1973)


 


 
 


Pablo Picasso and Lee Miller

 


Lee Miller
1937

 

Lee Miller

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
 

Elizabeth (Lee) Miller (23 April 1907 - 21 July 1977) was an American photographer. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York State in 1907, she was a successful fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris to become a fashion and fine art photographer. During the Second World War, she became an acclaimed war correspondent and photojournalist.At age 19 she was stopped from walking in front of a car on a Manhattan street by magazine publisher Condé Nast, thus launching her modeling career. For the next two years, she was one of the most sought after models in New York, photographed by the likes of Edward Steichen and George Hoyningen-Huene. In 1929 she traveled to Paris with the intention of learning photography from the surrealist artist and photographer Man Ray. Although he first tried to demur, insisting that he did not take students, Miller soon became his photography assistant, as well as his lover and muse. While she was in Paris, she began her own photographic studio. Together with Man Ray, she invented the photographic technique of solarization. She was a major participant in the surrealist movement, with her witty images.

Amongst her circle of friends were Pablo Picasso, Paul Éluard, Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein, and Alice B. Toklas.

She appeared in one film, Cocteau's The Blood of a Poet (1930), as a statue.After leaving Man Ray and Paris in 1932, she returned to New York and established a portrait and commercial photography studio with her brother Erik as her business partner. Among her portrait clients were artist Joseph Cornell and the African-American cast of the Virgil Thomson-Gertrude Stein opera Four Saints in Three Acts (1934). In 1934, she abandoned her studio to marry Egyptian businessman Aziz Eloui Bey. Although she did not work as a professional photographer during this period, the photographs she took while living in Egypt with Bey are regarded as some of her most striking surrealist images. With the outbreak of the Second World War, Miller had separated from Bey and was living in London when the bombing of that city began. Ignoring pleas from friends and family that she return to the US, she embarked on a new career in photojournalism as the official photographer for Vogue documenting the Blitz and was accredited to the U.S. Army as a war correspondent for Condé Nast Publications from 1944. She teamed up with David E. Scherman, a Life Magazine correspondent on many assignments. Miller travelled to France less than a month after D-Day and recorded the battle of St. Malo, the liberation of Paris as well as Nazi concentration camps and their victims upon their liberation. A photograph by Scherman of Miller in the bathtub of Adolf Hitler's house in Munich is particularly well-known. In 1947 she divorced Bey and, on 3 May of that year, married the British art historian, poet and surrealist painter Roland Penrose, who co-founded the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. In September 1947 they had a son, Antony Penrose. In 1949, they bought Farley Farm House in Sussex. During the 1950s and 1960s, Farley Farm became a sort of Mecca for visiting artists such as Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Henry Moore, Eileen Agar, Jean Dubuffet, Dorothea Tanning, and Max Ernst. Miller did the occasional photo shoot for Vogue but soon put her camera down for good. She rarely talked about her war experiences.

Miller died from cancer at Farley Farm House in Chiddingly, Sussex in 1977, aged 70.

 




 


Pablo Picasso. Photo: Lee Miller

 


Pablo Picasso. Photo: Lee Miller

 


Pablo Picasso. Photo: Lee Miller


Picasso wearing a Catalan cap, abbout 1944

 


Pablo Picasso
1944


Pablo Picasso
1944





Pablo Picasso and Francoise Gilot


1945-1953

 
 

Francoise Gilot

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Francoise Gilot (born 1921) is known as a companion of Picasso between 1944 and 1953. She was raised in Paris by her father, a businessman, and her mother, a watercolorist. While training as a lawyer, Gilot was known to skip morning law classes to feed her true passion: art. Despite her mother being an artist herself, the extent of the young woman's artistic pursuits inexplicably drove her away from immediate family to her grandmother's attic. At 21, Gilot met Picasso (then 61) and would ultimately raise both their children: Claude and Paloma. The children's antics were often captured on the canvases of their parents. Gilot maintained a relationship with the Spanish painter from 1944 until 1953. Eleven years after their separation Gilot wrote Life with Picasso, a book that sold over one million copies in dozens of languages.

In 1969 Gilot was introduced to Jonas Salk, the polio vaccine pioneer, at the home of mutual friends in La Jolla, CA. Their shared appreciation of architecture led to a brief courtship and they were married in 1970 in Paris. Gilot remained married to Dr. Salk until his death in 1995 and during her marriage she continued painting in New York, California, and Paris. At 85, Gilot's vibrant, colorful art continues to reflect her thoughts on nature, time, symbols and signs.

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In 1943 Picasso (age 62) then kept company with young art student Francoise Gilot (born in 1921).  Their two children were Claude (1947) and Paloma (1949) who was named for the dove of peace that Picasso painted in support of the peace movement post World War II. Gilot, frustrated with Picasso's relationships with other woman and his abusive nature left him in 1953. Gilot's book "Life with Picasso" was published 11 years after their separation.  In 1970 she married American physician-researcher Jonas Salk (who later died in 1985). 
http://www.sapergalleries.com/PicassoWomen.html

 



 


Francoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso, 1946

 


 


Claude Drawing, Francoise and Paloma
1954

 



 


Picasso
1945

 


Picasso's hands, 1947

 

Francoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso, 1948


 


Picasso
1948

 


Picasso with Paloma and Claude
1951
Photo: Edward Quinn


 


Picasso and Francoise Gilot, 1953
Photo by Edward Quinn

 


Picasso, Francoise Gilot, Claude and Paloma, 1953
 Photo by Edward Quinn

 


Picasso, Claude and Paloma, 1953
 Photo by Edward Quinn

 


Picasso painting ceramic, 1953
Photo by Edward Quinn

 


Picasso painting ceramic, 1953
Photo by Edward Quinn

 


Picasso with Paloma
1954
Photo: Edward Quinn

 


Picasso with Paloma and Claude
1955
Photo: Edward Quinn
 


Picasso with Paloma and Claude
1955

 


Picasso and Madame Rignault
Photo by Edward Quinn

 


Pablo Picasso, 1955 
Photo by Edward Quinn

 


Pablo Picasso, 1955 
Photo by Edward Quinn

 


Pablo Picasso, 1955 
Photo by Edward Quinn

 


Pablo Picasso
Photo by Edward Quinn
1955

 


Pablo Picasso
Photo by Edward Quinn
1955

 

 
 


Pablo Picasso and Helene Parmelin

1952

 
 


1952 - In Vallauris Picasso paints the "Portrait of Madame H.P.", the wife of his painter friend Edouard Pignon

 



 




Pablo Picasso and Genevieve Laporte


1951-1953

 
 


Genevieve Laporte first met Picasso when she was a 17-year-old student interviewing him for her school magazine. Years later they became lovers despite a 50-year age gap.
They took a holiday in Saint Tropez in 1951, and there at 70-year-old Picasso drew Laporte in ink, charcoal and pencil, with many sketches signed "For Genevieve."

 
 

Genevieve Laporte

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

 

Genevieve Laporte was Pablo Picasso's love. She is perhaps most famous for auctioning off twenty works, many with her as a subject, that were bestowed upon her during a secret love affair with Picasso in the 1950's. Reportedly, she met the artist as a teenager during World War II, finding common ground in poetry. She was in her mid-twenties when the affair began in 1951, though Picasso was nearly fifty years older than his French model. Some art historians and museums carrying Picasso's work have dubbed the paintings he made around that time the 'Genevieve Period', as many of them feature symbolic tributes to his belle as well as dedications "To Genevieve". In June 2005, she auctioned off the drawings Picasso made of her. With this money she creates a fundation "Genevieve Laporte de Pierrebourg, pour la defense de la nature et des animaux", with agreement of Fondation de France. Laporte wrote 16 books. About Picasso : Si tard le soir le soleil brille (1973), traduction anglaise :Sunshine at midnight (1974), Un amour secret de Picasso (1999), Du petit Pablo au grand Picasso (2003), Le grand Picasso (2004) Her last book is "du petit Wolfgang au grand Mozart" (2006).

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In 1944 17-year old Genevieve Laporte (born in 1927) interviewed Picasso for a school newspaper.  Years later in May, 1951 Picasso began an affair with the then-24 year old.  The relationship started when Laporte visited the 70-year old Picasso at his studio while he was still living with Françoise Gilot.  That summer of 1951 Picasso took Laporte to St Tropez, leaving Françoise behind.  After declining Picasso's invitation to move in with him in St. Tropez, she left him in 1953 at the same time that Françoise left the artist.
In 1972 she went public with the affair and stored the art that Picasso created of her in a safe. In 2005, at age 79, the poet Laporte auctioned 20 drawings of her that Picasso created during their secret affair.  Picasso's time with Laporte has been referred to as Picasso's "tender period".
 http://www.sapergalleries.com/PicassoWomen.html

 




 


Genevieve Laporte
1951

 


Pablo Picasso, 1951

 


French Genevieve Laporte near her portrait drawn in 1951 by Picasso in Paris June 23, 2005.
Genevieve Laporte's collection of 20 Picasso drawings went to auction at Artcurial house on June 27.

 





Pablo Picasso and Sylvette David


 1954


 
 

1954 - Sylvette David aged 19 when Picasso met her in Vallauris and did 39 drawings and portraits of her in the spring of 1954. The portraits confirmed the English girl's pony-tail as teenage girls' preferred hair style worldwide.

 
 

Sylvette

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Sylvette is the title of the portrait of the young woman with the ponytail painted by Pablo Picasso. The Spanish painter met Sylvette David, a woman who worked in a pottery not far from his studio in Vallauris, in spring 1953. The attraction, which a face like Sylvette's had for Picasso's sensuality, motivated him to paint. Sylvette's portrait from May 2, 1954 is one of the last of a long serial.

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Lydia Corbett (Sylvette David) was born in Paris in 1934. Her childhood was spent in an artistic environment, (her mother being a painter and her father an established dealer in contemporary art) though she received no formal training.
During the 1954s Sylvett David met Pablo Picasso at Vallauris on the Riviera. Following the artist's separation from Françoise Gilot, the meeting with Lydia (then still Sylvette), introduced a new, positive phase in his work and she became the model for a cycle of some forty paintings and drawings (the Sylvette cycle) as well as many ceramics of this period. The "Heads of Sylvette", a series of folded metal sculptures which Picasso developed at this time, marked the next major innovation in his sculptural work.


 




 


Pablo Picasso with bread fingers
1952