Picasso looks at Degas / Elizabeth Cowling and Richard Kendall ; with additional contributions by Cécile Godefroy, Sarah Lees, and Montse Torras.

This volume presents documented instances of Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso's (1881-1973) direct responses to French painter and sculptor Edgar Degas's (1834-1917) works, as well as more conceptual and challenging affinities between their individual bodies of work. Illustrated...

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Main Author: Cowling, Elizabeth.
Corporate Authors: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute., Museo Picasso.
Other Authors: Kendall, Richard.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Williamstown, Mass. : Barcelona [Spain] : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute ; Museu Picasso, [2010]
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Table of Contents:
  • Academies and "mad revolutionaries" / Richard Kendall
  • Neighbors in Montmartre / Richard Kendall
  • The ballet : "work, pleasure and vice" / Richard Kendall
  • The rebirth of Venus : women at their toilette / Elizabeth Cowling
  • "The best things he ever did" : Picasso and Degas's maisons closes / Elizabeth Cowling
  • "To play with light and shadow" : Degas and Picasso as photographers / Sarah Lees
  • Olga Khokhlova, ballerina, and Pablo Picasso / Cécile Godefroy
  • Reactions to the work of Degas in Picasso's circle (1881-1900) / Montse Torras.