PICASSO AND PHOTOGRAPHY "at greater speed than images". - Lot 852

PICASSO AND PHOTOGRAPHY "at greater speed than images". 27 x 21.5 cm - Large catalog of the exhibition held at the Hotel Salé, Musée Picasso, Paris, from October 5 to December 31, 1995. 272 pages show, through some 230 works covering the period 1913 to 1967, how Picasso used photography as a means of plastic expression: photo / etching. From the Cubist period onwards, Picasso had been multiplying his research associating drawing and engraving with the resources of photography. On several occasions between 1913 and 1936, he used copper plates from the reproduction of his works as a support for etching. In 1937, a series of portraits of Dora Maar, a Surrealist photographer, combined the old process of the cliché verre with the modern practice of the photogram. From 1950 to 1960, Picasso experimented with drawing or engraving on photographic plates or slides. Photo / graphic design. Found illustrations and press clippings are for Picasso pretexts for graphic interpretation. From 1950 onwards, Picasso showed his taste for provocation by coloring pictures taken by the American photographer Dacid Douglas Duncan, or by covering Life or Vogue magazines and Pin-up photos with licentious graffiti. photo / genius. His collaboration with photographers Brassaï, Mili and Villers gave rise to some unusual experiments. The long-standing collaboration between Picasso and Brassaï includes a series devoted to sculpted paper in 1943. In 1949, Gjon Mili fixed the special drawings that the artist improvised in the dark with a luminous pencil. From 1954 to 1961, photographic cut-outs with Villers. A true work of erudition, it reveals a little-known aspect of Picasso's work. Objects shown, objects described and, above all, extensively analyzed and commented on.