Picasso in Fontainebleau

Name: Picasso in Fontainebleau
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SKU: 9781633451391
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Picasso in Fontainebleau explores a remarkable period in Pablo Picasso's career during the summer of 1921, when he created an extraordinary and diverse range of works while staying in a villa in Fontainebleau, France. The book and accompanying MoMA exhibition reunite major paintings, studies, line drawings, etchings, and pastels from this phase for the first time in over a century. Featuring monumental works such as Three Musicians and Three Women at the Spring, the collection reveals Picasso's experimental approach as he painted simultaneously in Cubist and classical styles, challenging traditional notions of artistic progression and stylistic consistency. With essays from curators and conservators, the volume offers in-depth art historical and technical insights supported by rare photographs and archival documents.
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This book is ideal for enthusiasts of modern art, Picasso scholars, and readers interested in artistic processes and 20th-century art history. It will particularly appeal to those who appreciate detailed analyses of an artist's evolving styles and techniques, as well as visitors and followers of major museum exhibitions.

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This publication and the accompanying exhibition are the first to reunite major works from Picasso's studio in Fontainebleau, France, in over 100 years.

Between July and September of 1921, in a rented villa in the town of Fontainebleau, France, Pablo Picasso created an astonishingly varied body of work. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, that reunites these works for the first time since they left the artist's studio, Picasso in Fontainebleau presents both monumental versions of Three Musicians and Three Women at the Spring alongside other major works on canvas, small preparatory paintings, line drawings, etchings, and pastels he created in Fontainebleau.

Encompassing both Cubist and classic academic styles, these works are complemented by never-before-seen photographs and archival documents. An introductory essay by curator Anne Umland examines the critical issues that distinguish Picasso's Fontainebleau oeuvre, and is followed by 15 short essays co-authored by curators and conservators that offer art historical analysis of groups of closely related works and object-based insights into materials, structures, and processes.

By investigating Picasso's decision to paint simultaneously in seemingly opposite styles, Picasso in Fontainebleau emphasizes the interconnectedness of his process and practice, and his ability to disrupt expectations of artistic evolution and stylistic consistency.

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Critics praise the exhibition and publication for deepening understanding of Picasso's complex process. Jackson Arn of New Yorker highlights the vivid life in paintings like "Three Women at the Spring," while Alex Greenberger of ARTnews notes how the show dispels myths of effortless genius by presenting studies and unfinished works. Lance Esplund of the Wall Street Journal calls the exhibition brilliantly conceived and beautifully executed. Jed Perl of the New York Review of Books emphasises the thematic exploration of community and form in Picasso's variations on trio motifs.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781633451391

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 September 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Museum of Modern Art

Illustration: 240 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Anne Umland
Contributions by Michael Duffy
Edited by Francesca Ferrari
Edited by Alexandra Morrison
Contributions by Cindy Albertson
Contributions by Anny Aviram
Contributions by Lee Ann Daffner
Contributions by Emilie Faust
Contributions by Starr Figura

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 230.0mm

Height: 270.0mm

Weight: 1380g

Pages: 232

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Anne Umland is The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Cindy Albertson is Conservator of Modern and Contemporary Paintings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Anny Aviram is Senior Paintings Conservator at MoMA.

Lee Ann Daffner is a Photography Conservator at MoMA.

Michael Duffy is a Paintings Conservator at MoMA.

Emilie Faust is an Paintings Conservator, the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte.

Francesca Ferrari is a former Mellon-Marron Research Consortium Fellow in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA.

Starr Figura is Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at MoMA.

Alexandra Morrison is Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA.

Erika Mosier is a Conservator at MoMA.

Rachel Mustalish is a Paper Conservator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.