Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Vols 1 & 2, 1988 (Complete)
Published on the occasion of an exhibition dedicated to the painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, painted by Pablo Picasso in 1907, held at the Musée Picasso, Paris, 26 January – 18 April, 1988. PLEASE NOTE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING MAY APPLY.
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon marks a radical break from traditional composition and perspective in painting. It depicts five naked women with figures composed of flat, splintered planes and faces inspired by Iberian sculpture and African masks. The compressed space the figures inhabit appears to project forward in jagged shards; a fiercely pointed slice of melon in the still life of fruit at the bottom of the composition teeters on an impossibly upturned tabletop. These strategies would be significant in Picasso’s subsequent development of Cubism, charted in this gallery with a selection of the increasingly fragmented compositions he created in this period. Picasso unveiled the monumental painting in his Paris studio after months of revision. The Avignon of the work’s title is a reference to a street in Barcelona famed for its brothel. In Picasso’s preparatory studies for the work, the figure at the left was a man, but the artist eliminated this anecdotal detail in the final painting.
– Text source: Museum of Modern Art, New York
Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Vols 1 and 2. ( Studies in Modern Art 3)
Author: Helene Seckel et. al.
Publisher: Musee Picasso Paris / Réunion des musées nationaux
Publication date: 1988
Format: heavy, large format softcover, 26.5x 21.5 cm
Pages: 316 (v1); 404 (v2)
Condition: Good to very good. Some edge wear and thumbing to pages
Stock Number: RB03803
Published on the occasion of an exhibition dedicated to the painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, painted by Pablo Picasso in 1907, held at the Musée Picasso, Paris, 26 January – 18 April, 1988. PLEASE NOTE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING MAY APPLY.
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon marks a radical break from traditional composition and perspective in painting. It depicts five naked women with figures composed of flat, splintered planes and faces inspired by Iberian sculpture and African masks. The compressed space the figures inhabit appears to project forward in jagged shards; a fiercely pointed slice of melon in the still life of fruit at the bottom of the composition teeters on an impossibly upturned tabletop. These strategies would be significant in Picasso’s subsequent development of Cubism, charted in this gallery with a selection of the increasingly fragmented compositions he created in this period. Picasso unveiled the monumental painting in his Paris studio after months of revision. The Avignon of the work’s title is a reference to a street in Barcelona famed for its brothel. In Picasso’s preparatory studies for the work, the figure at the left was a man, but the artist eliminated this anecdotal detail in the final painting.
– Text source: Museum of Modern Art, New York
Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Vols 1 and 2. ( Studies in Modern Art 3)
Author: Helene Seckel et. al.
Publisher: Musee Picasso Paris / Réunion des musées nationaux
Publication date: 1988
Format: heavy, large format softcover, 26.5x 21.5 cm
Pages: 316 (v1); 404 (v2)
Condition: Good to very good. Some edge wear and thumbing to pages
Stock Number: RB03803
Published on the occasion of an exhibition dedicated to the painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, painted by Pablo Picasso in 1907, held at the Musée Picasso, Paris, 26 January – 18 April, 1988. PLEASE NOTE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING MAY APPLY.
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon marks a radical break from traditional composition and perspective in painting. It depicts five naked women with figures composed of flat, splintered planes and faces inspired by Iberian sculpture and African masks. The compressed space the figures inhabit appears to project forward in jagged shards; a fiercely pointed slice of melon in the still life of fruit at the bottom of the composition teeters on an impossibly upturned tabletop. These strategies would be significant in Picasso’s subsequent development of Cubism, charted in this gallery with a selection of the increasingly fragmented compositions he created in this period. Picasso unveiled the monumental painting in his Paris studio after months of revision. The Avignon of the work’s title is a reference to a street in Barcelona famed for its brothel. In Picasso’s preparatory studies for the work, the figure at the left was a man, but the artist eliminated this anecdotal detail in the final painting.
– Text source: Museum of Modern Art, New York
Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Vols 1 and 2. ( Studies in Modern Art 3)
Author: Helene Seckel et. al.
Publisher: Musee Picasso Paris / Réunion des musées nationaux
Publication date: 1988
Format: heavy, large format softcover, 26.5x 21.5 cm
Pages: 316 (v1); 404 (v2)
Condition: Good to very good. Some edge wear and thumbing to pages
Stock Number: RB03803
