Picasso, Pablo - Cubist Period posters

• The Ultimate Picasso -- Brigitte Leal, et al; Hardcover
• The Essential Pablo Picasso (Essential Series) -- Ingrid Schaffner; Hardcover
• Life With Picasso -- Francoise Gilot, Carlton Lake (Contributor); Paperback

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At 21, Gilot met 62-year-old Picasso. For nearly a decade, she shared her life with this complex artist, giving birth to two of his children. In her recollections, she describes the exuberant, if exhausting, world they knew together. 10 photos.

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Francoise Gilot met Picasso during the German occupation of Paris, she was twenty-one, he was sixty-two. For nearly a decade, Gilot shared her life with this giant of the art world, giving birth to two of his children, working as his model, and sharing his world. This uniquely candid and vivid memoir takes readers behind the Piccasso legend to meet the man.

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Pablo Picasso,  Spanish. 1881 - 1973 H. S. A. A.
Born on October 25th 1881 in Malaga, Spain to Maria Picasso, wife of the artist Jose Ruiz. He decided to take his mothers surname as an artist and qualified for the Academy of Fine Arts, Barcelona.  Later he studied at the San Fernando Academy, Madrid. His well known 'Blue period'  spanned the years between 1901 to 1904 when he was painting in Paris. Next came the 'circus' period with it's acrobats and clowns with a complete change of palette. The cubist period after meeting Braque started around 1911 and continued for a few years before entering a time where he designed sets for the theatre in a more classical style. A move into other forms of art including sculpture in wrought iron and other materials started in the early 1920's and continued until the 1930's. During the 2nd world war Picasso remained in Paris and during this time he painted many pictures which dwelt on the theme of death. He met and lived with Fran. Gilot and she gave him two children. The children Claude and Paloma appeared in a number of his paintings in the 40's.  He created many forms of ceramic art during the late 1940's. and it was  into the 1950's when his main interest turned to printing and lithography.
In 1953 he met Jacqueline Roque and in 1961 he married her  and following this marriage, Pablo and Jaqueline decided to leave Paris and moved  to the south of France  His popularity as an artist earned him the nickname 'The showman', with now exhibitions in Europe and America and in the 1960's he created the huge sculpture at the Chicago Civic Centre. An exhibition of his works at the Louvre in 1971 in honour for his 90th birthday was a great success followed in 1980 by an exhibition of his life works at the Museum of Modern Arts, New York..
Following a very active and prolific painting career he died on April 8th in 1973 aged 91 years old.
Represented in many public and private collection throughout the art world.

Auction house strikes
gusher with Picasso oil
By DEREK ROSE
and LEO STANDORA
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Thursday, May 6th, 2004

Pablo Picasso smoked Vincent van Gogh last night as his 1905 painting "Boy with a Pipe" was auctioned for a record-shattering $104 million. The new most expensive canvas in the world sold in just under five minutes. The tab for the 39-by-32-inch masterpiece, created when Picasso was just 24, included auctioneer Sotheby's $11 million commission. The very deep-pocketed buyer was not immediately known. Until last night, van Gogh's 1890 "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" had the record for fetching the most green. A Japanese billionaire bought it for a mere $82.5 million at a Christie's auction in May 1990. "Garcon ... la Pipe," painted soon after Picasso settled in Montmartre, France, shows a Parisian youth wearing blue overalls, holding a pipe in his left hand and wearing a crown of roses against a rosy background. The long-forgotten model was a teen who hung around Picasso's studio and volunteered to pose for the oil work. The spirited and speedy bidding last night was begun by auctioneer Tobias Mayer at $55 million. In just minutes, with the price at $79 million, a lull enveloped the room. "Are we done? I'm happy to wait," Tobias told the six bidders. Then a seventh art lover entered the fray, and with a cell phone call put the bidding into the art-world stratosphere. In less than five minutes, the deal was done. After the gavel went down, Sotheby's CEO Bill Ruprecht said, "It was an extraordinary night. History was made tonight." "My only fear was it would make only $99.9 million and you guys would write 'Sotheby's Misses the Mark,' " he told reporters.

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