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La Belle Fernande in Washington.(Art)
In the fall of 1909, the young Pablo Picasso modeled a clay and plaster sculpture of a female head, a searching, experimental work that now, cast in bronze, is considered a modernist icon, a benchmark in the development of Cubism. Head of a Woman (Fernande) is both radically new and strangely traditional; it simultaneously questions and reaffirms the time-honored conception of sculpture as solid form. (At the time Head of a Woman was made, Picasso and his friend Juli Gonzalez's reinvention of the discipline as open construction was still two decades in the future.) Confronted by the sculpture, you are acutely conscious of its dense singularity and just as acutely aware of ...
- Loving Picasso: The Private Journal of Fernande Olivier.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Art in America CONE, MICHELE C. June 1, 2001 700+ words
Loving Picasso: The Private Journal of Fernande Olivier, with a foreword by Marilyn McCully and an epilogue by...Dora Maar and Fernande Olivier, had they never entered the Picasso vortex? Until recently, the answer was no, despite the...
- Loving Picasso: The Private Journal of Fernande Olivier. (Reviewed...
- Biography Johnson, Diane September 22, 2001 700+ words
Loving Picasso: The Private Journal of Fernande Olivier. Fernande Olivier. Trans. Christine Baker and Michael...35. Olivier, Fernande " Though it is called 'Loving Picasso,' this attractive book--containing a version of Fernande...
- Painting a vivid picture of life with Picasso; Loving Picasso - The Private...
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) June 16, 2001 700+ words
Byline: Richard Edmonds Fernande Olivier was the first of Picasso's serious lovers. Beautiful...appeared under the title Loving Picasso in a translation by Christine...from John Richardson, the Picasso scholar who set this fine project...
- ROMANCE, FEAR CLOUD LOVER'S PICASSO...
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Chandler, Mary Voelz July 13, 2001 700+ words
...Writer Loving Picasso: The Private Journal of Fernande Olivier Translated...for Loving Picasso: The Private Journals of Fernande Olivier, the most...Photo (2) Fernande Olivier in 1906. CAPTION...Cover / LOVING PICASSO
- An iconic Picasso at gallery.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times December 4, 2004 700+ words
...As they arrived, Fernande Olivier noticed that the young...the pull of the young Picasso's kind smile and...into nascent cubism. Picasso's years with the French artists' model Fernande Olivier were among the most...today just as it did to Picasso's love-to-be...
- Picasso portrait series shows how Cubism evolved.(THE HOME FORUM)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor October 23, 2003 700+ words
...portraits by Pablo Picasso is to witness the...of portraits of Fernande Olivier - assembled for...Paris. Here, Picasso has rendered the...possibility. * 'Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier' is at the National...
- A head of his time.(Sculpture Today)(Pablo Picasso's Head of a Woman)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Town & Country Tuchman, Phyllis October 1, 2003 700+ words
...the spring and autumn of 1909, Picasso did more than seventy portraits of Fernande Olivier, his companion since 1905...the first Cubist sculpture. PICASSO: THE CUBIST PORTRAITS OF FERNANDE OLIVIER reunites sixty of the rarely...
- PICASSO EXHIBITION SHOWS REDEFINITION OF PORTRAIT ART WORK REFLECTS ARTISTIC...
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 12, 1996 700+ words
...Western medieval art, the Picasso face in this period became...over what it looked like. Picasso could not stand doing commissioned...most important of whom were Fernande Olivier in the first decade of the...first wife, Olga Khokhlova Picasso, in the 1910s and 1920s...
