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"Picasso's most memorable etchings...an extremely important as well as moving group of pictures." Art Review
"As a graphic artist, Picasso never rose to greater heights...Picasso at his most classical, his most personal, most touching." Sunday Telegraph
The 100 superb etchings made by Picasso between 1930 and 1937 for the great art critic and dealer Ambroise Vollard, who commissioned and published them, have long been recognized as one of the supreme productions of the master's hand. Arising from Picasso's artistic caprice, from his working experience, or from the very depths of his unconscious, these plates show, more than any of his other works, a man at once inspired by and prey to his dazzling imagination and the demands of his inner demon. 100 illustrations.

Picasso met Francoise Gilot, the young French student who was to become his muse and favorite model, while waiting out the war years in Paris. She appeared again and again in his works of the 1940s and 50s, often with her face stylized to recall the sun or a plant. It was also during this period--known as his Periode Francoise--that Picasso employed a cheerful palette not seen before in his work. His concurrent interest in the motifs of Mediterranean antiquity and mythology, from dancing centaurs to music-making fauns, is attributed to a stay in the Cap d'Antibes on the Cote d'Azur in 1946. In this volume, internationally recognized French and German Picasso scholars consider the different facets of the artist's work during this period. Rich illustrations illuminate the connections between the motifs of his paintings and sculptural and graphic work. Also included are reproductions of Francoise Gilot's own work, thus allowing entry into the artistic dialogue that occurred between Picasso and his young partner, who separated from him in 1953.

Deconocidos hasta finales de los ochenta, los poemas en prosa de Pablo Picasso certifican la plural y sublime genialidad artística de su autor.

«Me dicen que escribes. Te creo capaz de cualquier cosa. Si un día me dijeran que has oficiado una misa, también me lo creería.» Con estas palabras se dirigió su madre a Picasso cuando conoció su faceta como escritor. Y es que la genialidad artística del pintor malagueño no encontraba límites. Sus poemas, poco conocidos hasta su aparición en Francia en 1989, son una buena prueba de ello.

Los poemas reunidos en este libro recuerdan mucho a sus cuadros: la sorprendente diversidad que caracteriza a su obra plástica también está presente en sus textos, que se nos ofrecen al más puro estilo del collage picassiano, y que adquieren una brillante y poética dimensión visual.