Picasso: Peace and Freedom
an exhibition at Tate Liverpool, May 21–August 30, 2010; the Albertina, Vienna, September 22, 2010–January 16, 2011; and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, February 11–May 29, 2011
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Lynda Morris and Christoph Grunenberg
London: Tate Publishing, 255 pp., $60.00
Morir en Madrid
by Louis Delaprée, edited by Martin Minchom
Madrid: Raíces, 222 pp., €18.00
Asked where he stood politically in the years leading up to the Spanish civil war, Picasso would answer that since he was a Spaniard and Spain was a monarchy, he was a royalist. D.H. Kahnweiler, his dealer and close friend, and a lifelong socialist, asserted that Picasso was the most apolitical man he had ever met: “His Communism is quite unpolitical. He has never read a line of Karl Marx, nor of Engels of course. His Communism is sentimental…. He once said to me, ‘Pour moi, le Parti Communiste est le parti des pauvres.’”
Letters
Franco, MI6, Mussolini & Mallorca January 13, 2011
