Pablo Picasso

Standard Name: Picasso, Pablo

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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.
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Textual Production Gertrude Stein
This publication was the result of a contract between Bennett Cerf of Random House and GS for a future, second autobiography. Cerf promised to publish all of GS 's works at the rate of one...
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 Production Gertrude Stein
GS published a novel entitled MatissePicasso and Gertrude Stein, which also included two shorter pieces: A Long Gay Book and Many Many Women.
Wilson, Robert Alfred. Gertrude Stein: A Bibliography. Phoenix Bookshop.
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Textual Production Gertrude Stein
GS published, in French, her second portrait of Picasso. An English version was published after revisions were made by Alice Toklas .
Wilson, Robert Alfred. Gertrude Stein: A Bibliography. Phoenix Bookshop.
39-40
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.
Textual Features Jeanette Winterson
The novel's three apparently unconnected characters are breast surgeon Handel (erstwhile boy chorister, castrato, and Catholic priest; not the same as yet reminiscent of George Frederick Handel ), Picasso (a young woman whose family opposes...
Reception Gertrude Stein
Alfred Stieglitz , the editor of Camera Work, wrote to tell GS : You have undoubtedly succeeded in expressing Matisse and Picasso in words.
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
72
Writer and journalist Henri-Pierre Roché saw things differently: he...
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.
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.
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. Harry N. Abrams.
265, 241ff
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...
Occupation Gertrude Stein
They became patrons and they became salonnières. They were presumed to be eccentric millionaires, though they lived meagrely so that they could buy art. Leo dominated the early days of the salon with his efforts...
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.
309
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
139
GS

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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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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, pp. 3-7.
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photographs mostly by Lee Miller , entitled Grim Glory: Pictures of Britain under Fire.

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.

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