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Picasso: A Centennial Celebration 1881-1981 (1980) / view
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From the book jacket text:
No other book has ever revealed so clearly the character of a world-renowned
personality as does this definitive photographic portrait of Pablo Picasso.
For nearly twenty years David Douglas Duncan was an intimate friend of Picasso
and his family. From the tens of thousands of photographs he took in the
artist's last three studio-homes, Duncan has selected 150 of his favorite
pictures, some world-famous, many never before published, to celebrate the
artist's centennial year. Here we see Picasso at work, and at play —
painting, dancing, enjoying private moments with his wife, children, and
friends. Through these extraordinary photographs, reproduced in duotone
and full color, and the delightfully candid text, we can feel the vitality
of this great man, watch while he creates a masterpiece, and sense the warmth
and emotional depth of a genius whose work affected the entire course of
modern art and the design of much that surrounds us in our everyday life.
