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Picasso's Concrete Sculptures by Fairweather, Sally H., 1917-2006; Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973; Nesjar, Carl, 1920-2015 is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Picasso's Concrete Sculptures about?

Picasso's concrete sculptures. When Pablo Picasso first learned of the Betograve Process for pouring and engraving concrete, he "jumped out of his chair as if he had sat on a pin. He wax so excited .... [His] lightning eye and intuitive intelligence instantly recognized the creative uses that he might be able to make of this new technique." Indeed, Picasso's collaboration with Norwegian artist Carl Nesjar during the next fifteen years led to a series of exuberant public sculptures in Spain, France, Sweden, Norway, Holland, Israel, and the United States (New York, Princeton, Cambridge, and Rolling Meadows, near Chicago). Picasso's Concrete Sculptures is a comprehensive history of that collaboration, from the preparation and selection of marquettes, theough all the stages of approval, to actual construction and engraving. Author Sally Fairweather is a prominent Chicago art dealer who was instrumental in the realization there of the monumental Picasso concrete sculpture, The Bather, and she subsequently undertook the prodigious task of researching and writing this first published study of the entire series of sculptures. Nearly 100 plates -- many in full color -- illustrate every one

Author

Fairweather, Sally H., 1917-2006; Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973; Nesjar, Carl, 1920-2015

Publisher

New York: Hudson Hills Press: Distributed by Viking Penguin

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780933920286

Subjects

Art, Arts