Volume 31, Number 12 · July 19, 1984
The Catch in the Late Picasso
By John Richardson
Picasso: The Last Years, 1963–1973 Gallery of New York University, January 23 to March 9, 1984
an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, sponsored by the Grey Art
Picasso: The Last Years, 1963–1973
by Gert Schiff
Braziller/Grey Art Gallery, 143 pp., $17.50 (paper)
'I paint the way some people write their autobiography,' Picasso told Françoise Gilot. Likewise Dora Maar—another of the artist's mistresses—said that the transformations in Picasso's style reflected transformations in his private life. When the woman changed, everything else changed: not just the art, but the house Picasso lived in, the poet he would have around, the circle of friends, and the dog. The last time one of these transformations took place was in 1954, after Françoise Gilot had walked out and the artist had taken up with Jacqueline Roque. In honor of this new relationship, Picasso moved to a grandiose villa back of Cannes; he reappointed Jean Cocteau as his poet laureate, saw less of Parisian intellectuals and communists, and took up with an assortment of bullfighters, photographers, printers, and potters who were less engagés. He also came into possession of a dachsund called Lump.
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