Picasso Harlequin 1917-1937

A groundbreaking study of Pablo Picasso, it documents all Picasso's major works from 1917 to 1937 including La Suite Voillard from the National Gallery of Canada.
The title intends to be a metaphor. Harlequin can be anything you wish, a chameleon who constantly changes look and is never where we expect to find him, and Picasso, who could contemporaneously adopt the styles of cubism, neoclassicism, surrealism and expressionism, had many things in common with this legendary theatre character. Defined by some as a cannibal, a ruthless monster who devoured whatever he came across, Picasso was surprisingly all-inclusive.
As a consequence he was, for a long time, an inevitable point of reference for many younger artists.
Key Sales Information - The book is the catalogue of an exhibition in Rome of about 200 artworks gathered from such prestigious museums and foundations as the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, the Centre Pompidou and the Musée Picasso in Paris, the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Menil Colletion in Houston, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa.
Author Yves-Alain Bois is professor of Art History at the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advances Study, Princeton.
Dawn Ades is professor of Art History at the University of Essex.