SHAKESPEARE

Picasso - Aragon Shakespeare, 124 pages, 13 gravure illustrations. Large format 13 x 18.5 book. In 1964 on the occasion of the four- hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's birth friends persuaded Picasso to make a drawing of the playwright. Pablo Picasso, true to h is nature, created numerous variations on the theme, including several that made witty references to Hamlet. Louis Aragon was asked to contribute an essay to accompany the drawings. The result was an essay entitled Shakespeare, Hamlet, and Us. However, his major c ontributi...[Read more]