Picasso and Portrait: National Museums Exhibition

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Picasso and Portrait: National Museums Meeting/Flammarion, 1996. Book published on the occasion of the exhibition organized at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from April 28 to September 17, 1996, and at the National Galleries of the Grand Palais, Paris, from October 15, 1996 to January 20, 1997. 495 pages, softcover (cover slightly faded), 30 x 23 cm. Numerous black and white and color photographs and reproductions. Contents: William Rubin – Reflections on Picasso and Portrait; Kirk Varnedoe – Picasso's Self-Portraits; Hélène Seckel – On Three Manifesto Portraits by Picasso: André Salmon, Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob; Anne Baldassari – "The Head, the Face, the Body": Some Uses of Photographic Portrait; Marilyn McCully – "In the Trap of Picasso's Scrutinizing Gaze": Early Portraits; Pierre Daix: From Primitivism to Synthetic Cubism and Beyond; Michael C. FitzGerald – The Modernists' Dilemma: Neoclassicism and Portraits of Olga Khokhlova; Robert Rosenblum – Picasso's Blonde Muse: The Reign of Marie-Thérèse Walter; Brigitte Léal – "For Dora Maar": The Portraits of Dora Maar; Michael C. FitzGerald – Triangle of Ambitions: Art, Politics and Family in the Postwar Years with Françoise Gilot; William Rubin – The Portraits of Jacqueline in the Logic of Picasso's Art; Index of Names Cited; Index of Picasso's Works; List of Exhibited Works.