A book covering the Seattle Art Museum's extraordinary exhibition featuring over 100 masterpieces by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973), drawn from the permanent collection of Paris’s renowned Musée National Picasso. This once-in-a-lifetime showcase, made possible by the temporary closure of the Musée Picasso for extensive renovations until 2012, encompassed paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints spanning every phase of the artist’s illustrious career.
 
Included were Picasso's diverse artistic styles and forms, from the poignant Celestina (1904) of his Blue Period to the expressive Two Brothers (1906) from the Rose Period. Also on display were Cubist compositions like Man with a Guitar (1911) and the Neoclassical elegance of Portrait of Olga (1917), featuring the artist’s wife. Delve into proto-Surrealist works such as Two Women Running on a Beach (1922) and the iconic Portrait of Dora Maar (1937), Picasso’s lover and esteemed French artist, surrealist bronze heads and innovative sculptures like Head of a Bull (1942) crafted from bicycle parts, and later creations like the captivating self-portrait The Matador (1970).
 
ISBN: 978-0-300-17073-3