Picasso. Obras maestras

With his multi-faceted genius and the disruption it created, Picasso came to dominate his epoch much faster than one might imagine. At his death, all of the newspapers chimed in unison on the “century of Picasso.” Far from both the current tendency to demonize Picasso and towards hagiography in the past, Stéphane Guégan sheds a nuanced light on the man, his life, his political engagement and his enormous work. While it is impossible to tell it all, it is essential to identify his strong and weak points, and to locate an aesthetic continuity. Stéphane Guégan does so brilliantly in this work, which contains illustrations of more than one hundred masterpieces and numerous documents, and reads like a novel and feels like a luxurious artbook.