Tobia Bezzola

Michael C. FitzGerald

Simonetta Fraquelli

Christian Geelhaar

The works featured in this book include paintings, sculpture and prints from the artist's Blue and Rose periods, his foray into Cubism, his neo-classical paintings of the 1920s and his images inspired by his young lover Marie-Thérèse Walter in the early 1930s.

His First Museum Exhibition 1932

Picasso by Picasso

Nancy Ireson

Kunsthaus Zürich

Lena Huber

Robert Delaunay

Céline Chicha-Castex

Anne De Mondenard

Robert Delaunay and The City of Lights will recognise Delaunay's unwavering commitment to colour in painting to convey form, depth, light and movement, while highlighting how the modern metropolis of Paris often provided the inspiration for his imagery and pictorial research. The newly commissioned texts allow the reader to experience the wide-ranging and prescient nature of Robert Delaunay's work - exploring the significant themes of movement, technology, sport, and advertising that were to preoccupy him throughout his career.

Robert Delaunay and the City of Lights

Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) produced some of the most memorable art of the early twentieth century. Born in Livorno, Italy, and working in Paris from 1906, his career was tragically short but experimentation and innovation were consistent priorities. This ambitious new monograph is the most comprehensive book on the artist published to date, covering all aspects of Modigliani's brief yet seminal career. This book brings together Modigliani's paintings, sculptures and drawings alongside comparable works by his peers, such as Jacob Epstein and Paul Cézanne, as well as Brancusi and early Picasso. It connects Modigliani with contemporary practice in the bohemian quarter of Montparnasse as well as with wider visual culture in early twentieth-century Paris. All works from the exhibition will be stunningly reproduced in full colour, making this publication one of the most comprehensive surveys of Modigliani's work ever published. This book offers an insight into the artist's life and work from different perspectives and is a vital addition to the library of experts and newcomers alike.

Modigliani

Pablo Picasso

Christopher Riopelle

Neil Cox

Elizabeth Cowling

Anne Robbins

Susan Grace Galassi

This volume tells the story of Picasso's artistic development and his passionate relationship with the European art tradition.

Challenging the Past

Picasso

Claire Bernardi

"I've always been crazy about Soutine--all of his paintings," said Willem de Kooning in 1977, speaking about Lithuanian artist Chaim Soutine (1893-1943). Of all the abstract expressionists, de Kooning was the only one who continued to praise Soutine throughout his career and to credit him with an influence on his work. But how much was de Kooning's approach impacted by Soutine? Soutine de Kooning dramatically juxtaposes the two artists and shows Soutine's decisive influence on the development of de Kooning's art. De Kooning first discovered Soutine's work before World War II in the galleries of New York. The expressive force of Soutine's painting, coupled with his image as an "accursed" artist struggling with the vicissitudes and excesses of bohemian life in Paris during the interwar years, exerted a powerful influence on a new generation of postwar painters in the United States. It was during these years that de Kooning matured his own personal form of expressionism, which, with its visceral brushstrokes and heavy impasto, lies somewhere between figuration and abstraction. And a significant turning point in de Kooning's work, evident in his celebrated Women paintings of the early 1950s, coincides with his in-depth study of Soutine at retrospectives at New York's Museum of Modern Art and his visit to the Barnes Foundation near Philadelphia. This lavishly illustrated book traces the development of that influence, paying particular attention to the posthumous retrospective of Soutine's work that was held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1950.

A Meeting of Minds

Soutine / de Kooning

Simonetta Fraquelli

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