Volume 8, Number 6 · April 6, 1967
Picasso at Eighty-five
By John Richardson
Picasso & Co.
by Brassaï
Doubleday, 289 pp., $6.95
Picasso at Work
by Roland Penrose, with photographs by Edward Quinn
Doubleday, 272 pp., $9.95
Success and Failure of Picasso
by John Berger
Penguin, 224 pp., $2.25
Picasso, Shakespeare, Aragon
Abrams, 120 pp., $35.00
By the time Picasso's eighty-fifth birthday year is over, major exhibitions will have taken place in Basel, Dallas, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, London, New York, Paris, and lesser ones will have cropped up all over the world. Meanwhile, every Picasso dealer is putting on a show to promote his holdings, and publishers are announcing new titles or revamping old ones. The irony is that all this public acclaim, unprecedented in the life of an artist, should come at a time when the more thoughtful young artists and critics have turned to new gods—just as fifty years ago they rejected the work of the aged Monet and supported cubism. But more of this later.
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