{"id":5008,"date":"2022-02-27T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=5008"},"modified":"2024-02-08T09:30:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:30:05","slug":"art-media-josep-palau-i-fabre-picasso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=5008","title":{"rendered":"ART\/MEDiA: Josep Palau i Fabre & Picasso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Has this guy got a thing for Pablo?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s coming up to 7am, the night after my pal Dan\u2019s 50th birthday party. After a few hours sleep, I\u2019m awake again, and not likely to get back to sleep for a while. So I decided to add a few more of my book reviews to Good Reads. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My first extravagant art book acquisition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Two of the additions were titles by Catalan writer, poet and Picasso expert Josep Palau i Fabre (read more on him here<\/a>). The first was my first plush art book purchase (pictured above), bought whilst still in my teens. The second (below) I bought many years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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#2, a much more recent purchase.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And tonight, whilst doing the reviews and unable to sleep, I ordered, via Amazon, i Fabre\u2019s third in the series, Picasso: From the Ballets to Drama, 1917-1926<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Was i Fabre planning to cover Picasso\u2019s whole life, ultimately? I\u2019ve found another title, possibly the next in such a series. But, rather oddly, there\u2019s no mention of any such book on the Wikipedia page about his life and works I\u2019ve linked to above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And most recently, ordered tonight, #3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Whatever his plans and ambitions may have been in this respect (and the writings of John Richardson, also on Picasso, spring to mind in this connection), i Fabre died in 2008, aged 90, not having got further – in terms of the chronological catalogue raisonne<\/em> type works – than either this, or the possible sequel, Picasso: From Minotour To Guernica 1927-1939<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far I have just the first two volumes, both big fat chunky hardbacks, The Early Years, 1881-1907<\/em>, and Cubism, 1907-1917<\/em>, purchased many years apart. Having ordered number three in the series, Ballets & Drama, 1917-1926<\/em> – at a very reasonable \u00a327.75 (inc. postage!) – I\u2019m very excited at the prospect of both enlarging my collection and, best of all, perusing all the artworks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Currently out of my price range\u2026 #4.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d get the next one, as well, if I could find it at an affordable price. The cheapest copy on Amazon UK when I made my most recent order was priced at \u00a3220! I think I\u2019ll try shopping around a bit. Mind you, the three copies listed on Abebooks.com right now range from \u00a3360 to \u00a31,400! Making the initially exorbitant \u00a3220 seem quite reasonable!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I\u2019m honest the textual content, whilst of interest, is a distant second to the images. Like a lot of art history or related literature, the texts of the two I have are hardly the main selling point, for me; rather hagiographic, and a bit lumpen – is this partly the translation? (I\u2019m not in a rush to read his poetry!) – I do dip into it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the pictorial content, Picasso\u2019s work, is what it\u2019s all about for me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s coming up to 7am, the night after my pal Dan\u2019s 50th birthday party. After a few hours sleep, I\u2019m awake again, and not likely to get back to sleep for a while. So I decided to add a few more of my book reviews to Good Reads. Two of the additions were titles by … <\/p>\n

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