Making Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-century Art

Making Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-century Art
ISBN-10
0520206533
ISBN-13
9780520206533
Category
Art
Pages
313
Language
English
Published
1996-01-01
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Michael C. FitzGerald

Description

Artists don't achieve financial success and critical acclaim during their lifetimes as a result of chance or luck. Michael FitzGerald's assiduously researched book documents Picasso's courting of dealers, critics, collectors, and curators as he established his reputation during the first forty years of the twentieth century. FitzGerald describes the care, patience, and resourcefulness invested by Paul Rosenberg, Picasso's dealer and close collaborator from 1918 to 1940, in building the financial value and public acceptance of Picasso's art. The book is based on and quotes generously from previously unpublished correspondence between Picasso and dealers, collectors, and museum curators.

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