Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L’amour fou 2000 and historical concepts

and historical concepts

The bilingual (English/Italian) catalogue is designed as a board book with a die-cut form that echoes the shape of one of the exhibited piano sculptures

For an exhibition at Kunsthaus Baselland

the volume includes an essay and poem by David Shapiro and a poem by Patricia Waters

Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L’amour fou 2000 and historical conceptsThis poster featuring Marie Thrse accoude (1939) was produced in 2011, in conjunction with Picasso and Marie Thrse: Lamour fou at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. The exhibition, curated by Picasso biographer John Richardson and Marie Thrse Walters granddaughter, art historian Diana Widmaier Picasso, gathered more than eighty paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints inspired by Walter, one of Picassos favorite models and enduring passions.