Franklin Library: SIGNED: PABLO PICASSO BIOGRAPHY: ARTIST: A. HUFFINGTON

Description: Franklin library leather edition of Adrianna Stassinopoulos Huffington's "Picasso: Creator and Destroyer," Portrait of Picasso by Francoise Gilot, a First edition, Personally Signed by Stassinopoulos, one of the SIGNED FIRST EDITION SOCIETY series, published in 1988. Bound in red leather, the book has decorative paper end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, satin book maker, gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington is a Greek-American author and the co-founder of The Huffington Post. Pablo Picasso, who lived from1881 –1973, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist, who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. His work is often categorized into periods: The Blue period (1901-1904), the Rose Period (1904-06), the African-influenced Period (1907-1912, and the Synthetic Cubism (1909-1919.) Picasso was a part of the 1920s Paris "lost generation" and was friends with Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Gertrude Stein was among the first Americans to respond enthusiastically to European avant-garde art; Stein's early patronage and friendship was critical to his success. Picasso painted her portrait between 1905-06 at the end of his Rose Period. [Stein gave her valuable Picasso painting---her personal favorite-- to the Metropolitan Art Museum, New York, in 1946.] In 1918, Picasso married OLGA KHOKHLOVA, a ballerina. After returning from his honeymoon, and in desperate need of money, Picasso started his exclusive relationship with the French-Jewish art dealer Paul Rosenberg, a deep brother-like friendship between two very different men, that would last until the outbreak of World War II. Khokhlova introduced Picasso to high society, formal dinner parties, and all the social niceties attendant to the life of the rich in 1920s Paris. The two had a son, Paulo Picasso, who would grow up to be a dissolute motorcycle racer and chauffeur to his father. Khokhlova's insistence on social propriety clashed with Picasso's bohemian tendencies and the two lived in a state of constant conflict. In 1927 Picasso met 17-year-old MARIE-THERESE WALTER and began a secret love affair with her. Picasso's marriage to Khokhlova soon ended in separation rather than divorce, as French law required an even division of property. The two remained legally married until Khokhlova's death in 1955. Picasso carried on a long-standing affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter and fathered a daughter with her, named Maya. Marie-Thérèse lived in the vain hope that Picasso would one day marry her and hanged herself four years after Picasso's death. Throughout his life Picasso maintained several mistresses in addition to his wife or primary partner. Picasso was married twice and had four children by three women. During the Second World War, Picasso remained in Paris while the Germans occupied the city. Picasso's artistic style did not fit the NAZI ideal of art, so he did not exhibit during this time. He was often harassed by the GESTAPO. Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art. 558 pages. I offer Combined shipping.

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