Ebook: Picasso: cubist works from the Marina Picasso collection
Author: Picasso Marina, Picasso Pablo, Picasso Pablo, Picasso Marina
- Tags: Picasso Pablo, 1881-1973, Exhibitions, Picasso Marina, Art collections, Exhibitions, Jan Krugier Gallery (New York N.Y.), Picasso Marina, Picasso Pablo, 1881-1973, Cubism, France, Exhibitions, Art, Private collections, Exhibitions, Art, Private collections, Cubism, France, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Art & design styles: Abstract Expressionism, Individual artists art monographs
- Year: 1987
- Publisher: Jan Krugier Gallery
- City: New York, N.Y. (41 E. 57th St., New York 10022), France
- Language: English
- epub
Marina Picasso remembers being six years old and standing awkwardly in front of the gates of Picasso's grand house near Cannes. She was there with her father and eight-year-old brother to collect from her grandfather the weekly allowance that Picasso grudgingly gave his eldest son to support is family. Sometimes they were sent away and on other occasions, the gates would be opened and they would walk into the intimidating, exciting chaos of Picasso's studio to face the man himself and his unpredictable moods.
Looking back, Marina can understand why Picasso had so little interest in his grandchildren; but at the time, she and her brother longed for him to love and understand them. Just a few miles away down the Côte d'Azur, they led a hand-to-mouth existence. Her father was a weak man, reliant on his father for everything and her mother lived in her own fantasy world; the family were therefore utterly dependent on Picasso.
People assumed they were...