Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier
- ISBN-10
- 0691117411
- ISBN-13
- 9780691117416
- Series
- Picasso
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 196
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Authors
- National Gallery of Art, Pablo Picasso, Jeffrey S. Weiss
Description
An artistic analysis of Picasso's 1909 portraits, published to coincide with a major exhibition, discusses his seemingly obsessive drive to resolve issues in his portraitures of companion Fernande Olivier and the impact of Cubanism's invention on his work. (Fine Arts)
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