This Taschen Art Portfolio contains 14 framable color prints, byPablo Picasso, one of the world’s most influential artists.
One name in the history of 20th century art stands out over all the others: Pablo Picasso. Whether as painter, graphic artist or sculptor, he displayed an inventive enterprise and innovative bravado that always kept him one step ahead of his contemporaries. As one of them, the painter Max Ernst, ruefully put it "No one can touch Picasso. He is genius incarnate." Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain, and encouraged in his talent from an early age. His father, himself a painter, nurtured his son's gift, ensuring he had brushes and palette on hand. By the time he was twelve, young Pablo was on his way. And in the course of a long and fulfilled life, which was not without its setbacks but was free of financial worries, he established a plausible claim to be seen as the presiding genius of the century. The works selected here covers Picasso's entire output, from the less familiar to key masterpieces such as Guernica, from the Blue and Rose Periods early in his career through his cubist and classicist phases and the formal experiments of the Thirties to his later involvement with politics in art.