PICASSO/ PORTRAITS (HARDCOVER)

Encouraged by his father and when still only in his early teens, Picasso made numerous portraits from life of members of his family. By the late 1890s he had become adept at catching a likeness and in 1900 held a breakthrough exhibition of portrait drawings of the vanguard artists and writers in his circle in Barcelona. Many of the same people were, however, the subject of shrewd and amusing c aricatures, and periodically he subjected himself to the same unsparing treatment. For the rest of his life, portraiture and caricat ure were...[Read more]