Pablo Picasso

Standard Name: Picasso, Pablo

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Occupation Roger Fry
Fry travelled to Paris with Clive Bell, Desmond MacCarthy , and Lady Ottoline Morrell to select the paintings. On 6 November 1910, RF launched the Manet and the Post-Impressionists exhibition at the Grafton Gallery, which...
Publishing Monica Furlong
MR admits that one of the motives for the book was [a]wareness of how little part women were to play in the conference.
Furlong, Monica, editor. Mirror to the Church: Reflections on Sexism. SPCK, 1988.
1
In contrast to her earlier edited volume, which was equally balanced...
Performance of text Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Merchant-Ivory 's film Surviving Picasso premiered in New York for the thirty-fifth anniversary of the partnership; it, and especially RPJ 's script, were again controversial.
Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Newly updated ed., Harry N. Abrams, 1997.
265, 241ff
Leisure and Society Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
When the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed an important exhibition of Picasso 's work in late spring to early autumn 1996 (in the run-up to the release of the controversial film Surviving...
Leisure and Society Philip Larkin
PL loved cricket, photography, and jazz. His tastes in jazz, as in literature and art, were explicitly anti-modernist (he linked together, as merely diverting, Parker , Pound or Picasso), but perhaps more flexible and...
Publishing Cecily Mackworth
Cecily Mackworth published a critical biography entitled Guillaume Apollinaire and the Cubist Life: the frontispiece is a drawing of Apollinaire by Picasso .
The British National Bibliography. Council of the British National Bibliography; British Library, Bibliographic Services Division, 1950.
Friends, Associates Lady Ottoline Morrell
Her tour of the city with Chadbourne included the studios of Matisse and Picasso (in Montmartre), and Gertrude 's and Leo Stein 's collection of contemporary paintings.
Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.
88
Textual Production Grace Nichols
GN published with Bloodaxe Books a poetry volume entitled Picasso , I Want My Face Back.
Bloodaxe Books. http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/.
Textual Features Grace Nichols
One sequence of poems presents the mind of Dora Maar , Picasso 's mistress and the model for his painting Weeping Woman.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Grace Nichols
This returns to her earlier interest, expressed in Paint Me a Poem, in Picasso 's mistress Dora Maar and his transformation of her in the painting Weeping Woman.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Edith Sitwell
This relates the other arts to poetry, including Wagner , Roger Fry , and Picasso among the figures discussed.
Clements, Patricia. Baudelaire and the English Tradition. Princeton University Press, 1985.
250
Family and Intimate relationships Ali Smith
In Inverness the English Don and Irish Ann would always be seen as having come from somewhere else, but from AS 's several accounts of her father Don Smith seems to have been a marvellous...
Literary responses Gertrude Stein
From the time when the Atlantic Monthly published the first serial instalments of this book, English readers as well as American were enthusiastic, and enthusiasm grew with its appearance as a volume.
Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley, 1959.
309
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975.
139
GS
Friends, Associates Gertrude Stein
When GS met Pablo Picasso at Sagot's Gallery , he asked her to sit for a portrait. The result, which Picasso gave to Stein, became one of the icons of modernism.
Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley, 1959.
70, 74
Friends, Associates Gertrude Stein
A banquet in Paris for the painter Hénri Rousseau (le douanier) was attended by a colourful convoy including Leo and Gertrude Stein , Alice Toklas , Max Jacob , Guillaume Apollinaire , Marie Laurencin and Pablo Picasso .
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975.
67
Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley, 1959.
111-17

Timeline

25 October 1881: Pablo Picasso, painter and sculptor, was...

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25 October 1881

Pablo Picasso , painter and sculptor, was born in Malaga, Spain.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

6 November 1910: Roger Fry organised the Manet and Post-Impressionists...

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6 November 1910

Roger Fry organised the Manet and Post-Impressionists exhibition at the Grafton Galleries , which presented the art of Cézanne , Gauguin , Matisse , and Picasso to London for the first time.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
345
Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
107
Ford, Boris, editor. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. 9 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1988–2025.
8: 160
Woolf, Virginia. Roger Fry. Hogarth Press, 1940.
153-4
Anscombe, Isabelle. Omega and After: Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts. Thames and Hudson, 1981.
11-12
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

22 July 1919: Manuel de Falla's ballet set in eighteenth-century...

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22 July 1919

Manuel de Falla 's ballet set in eighteenth-century Spain, The Three Cornered Hat, with sets and costumes designed by Pablo Picasso , premiered at the Alhambra Theatre in London, performed by the Ballets RussesSergei Pavlovich Diaghilev .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
357
Boeck, Wilhelm, and Jaime Sabartés. Picasso. Thames and Hudson, 1955.
513

1925: The Black US singer Josephine Baker, aged...

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1925

The Black US singer Josephine Baker , aged nineteen, met with phenomenal success in Paris; she was seen as exemplifying the Jazz Age on one hand and a new racial consciousness on the other.
Nkosi, Lewis. “An UnAmerican in New York”. London Review of Books, 24 Aug. 2000, pp. 30-2.
30
Rogin, Michael. “Mon Pays”. London Review of Books, 22 Mar. 2001, pp. 21-3.
21-2

26 April 1937: The German Air Force bombed the village of...

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26 April 1937

The German Air Force bombed the village of Guernica in the Basque country in Spain; this was not a military target, so the incident represents an early instance of the bombing of civilians with...

June 1937: Only two months after the bombing of Guernica,...

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June 1937

Only two months after the bombing of Guernica, Picasso exhibited his painting Guernica in the Spanish Government Building in Paris, at the Paris World's Fair.
Boeck, Wilhelm, and Jaime Sabartés. Picasso. Thames and Hudson, 1955.
514

1941: Ernestine Carter (later fashion editor of...

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1941

Ernestine Carter (later fashion editor of the Sunday Times) edited a book of comic-horrific
Hollander, Anne. “Insouciance”. London Review of Books, 20 July 2006, pp. 3-7.
6
photographs mostly by Lee Miller , entitled Grim Glory: Pictures of Britain under Fire.
Hollander, Anne. “Insouciance”. London Review of Books, 20 July 2006, pp. 3-7.
3-7

8 April 1973: Pablo Picasso, painter and sculptor, died...

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8 April 1973

Pablo Picasso , painter and sculptor, died at Mougins in France.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

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