PICASSO THE BERGGRUEN ALBUM

This facsimile of a Picasso sketchbook is reproduced in such detail that readers can track the master's red marker pen bleeding thro ugh from one side of a page to the next--a subject's varnished nails appear on the verso as abstracted hatchmarks, and the red of he r lips as a squiggle. Picasso began The Berggruen Album on November 5, 1970, days after his eighty-ninth birthday, in his words, to make sure my hand has not developed a wobble. He had just conceived a series of a dozen powerful canvases inspired by the bullfights at Freju...[Read more]