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Venezia, Mike.

Summary: Briefly examines the life and work of the renowned twentieth-century artist, describing and giving examples from his various periods or styles.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1988

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB PICASSO VEN

Mühlberger, Richard.

Summary: Takes a close-up look at key paintings by Pablo Picasso, analyzing composition, line, color, subject matter, and the world in which he lived to define the characteristics of his work.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1994

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.2 PIC

Girard, Anne.

Summary: "When Eva Gouel moves to Paris from the countryside, she is full of ambition and dreams of stardom. Though young and inexperienced, she manages to find work as a costumer at the famous Moulin Rouge, and it is here that she first catches the attention of Pablo Picasso, a rising star in the art world. A brilliant but eccentric artist, Picasso sets his sights on Eva, and Eva can't help but be...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Mira 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Girard 2014

Summary: Compiling a half-century of unparalleled artistic dialog, this program documents the complicated relationship between two indomitable personae: Matisse, the serene, self-indulgent father figure, and Picasso, the eternal adolescent and fiery primitive. The program employs archival photos and film clips, stunning images of painting and sculpture, and firsthand recollections of the Picasso and...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Venezia, Mike.

Summary: Learn about the life of Pablo Picasso, a prolific artist, as well as his many stylistic periods and how each was influenced by his personal life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Fine Artist Picasso

Richardson, John

Contents: [v. 1]. The prodigy, 1881-1906

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO Richardson

Eakin, Hugh

Summary: "The untold story of the exhibition that made America the center of the art world -- and Picasso the most famous artist alive -- in the shadow of World War II"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PICASSO EAK

Summary: This superb documentary covers the long and extraordinary life of Picasso, beginning with the first period of his life in Malaga, La Coruna, and Barcelona (the time of his classic painting) and continuing in Paris, Vallauris, and Vouvenargue. This beautifully photographed program follows the development of this genius through the Pink and Blue Periods, surrealism, cubism, sculpture, and...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: "Portraiture has managed to flourish in modern painting in spite of the popularization of photography, the decline of traditional patronage, and modernism's increasing emphasis on abstraction. However problematic modern styles have been for representational art, painters have continued to discover new possibilities in the imaging of the human face. This book explores the challenge of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Modern Art 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 PIC

Richardson, John

Summary: The spectacular fourth and final volume of Picasso's life is set in Paris, Normandy, the south of France, Royan, and Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and at the beginning of World War II. Drawing on original and exhaustive research from interviews and never-before-seen material in the Picasso family archives, this book opens with a visit by the Hungarian-French photographer Brassaï to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO RIC

Summary: Explores the mind and motivations of Pablo Picasso as he creates over fifteen works before the camera. Using a specially designed transparent 'canvas' to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera records. He begins with simple works that take shape after only a single brush stroke. He then progresses to more complex paintings, in which he repeatedly adds and removes elements,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MYS

Dillenberger, Jane

Summary: "The first critical examination of Picasso's use of religious imagery and the religious import of many of his works with secular subject matter. Though Picasso was an avowed aetheist, his work employs themes of spirituality -- and, often, traditional religious iconography. In five engagingly written, accessible chapters, the authors address Picasso's cryptic 1930 painting of the Crucifixion;...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 702 DIL

Cohen-Solal, Annie

Summary: "A groundbreaking new study of Pablo Picasso that reveals how the artist fought to overcome the stigma he faced as a foreigner in France"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO COH

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B PICASSO COH

Huffington, Arianna Stassinopoulos

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1988

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO Huffington

Summary: This superb documentary covers the long and extraordinary life of Picasso, beginning with the first period of his life in Malaga, La Coruna, and Barcelona (the time of his classic painting) and continuing in Paris, Vallauris, and Vouvenargue. This beautifully photographed program follows the development of this genius through the Pink and Blue Periods, surrealism, cubism, sculpture, and...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Froeb, Lori.

Summary: Follow the adventures of Picasso, a playful puppy that is adopted by an artist and his young daughter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Fun Books 2015

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Newbold, Amy

Summary: Introduces a variety of nineteenth and twentieth century painters--including Picasso, O'Keefe, Seurat, and Jacob Lawrence--and their distinctive styles, through paintings of snowmen as each artist might have portrayed them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 759 NEW

Richardson, John

Summary: A comprehensive biography of Spanish painter and sculptor, Pablo Picasso, that chronicles his life and works from the time he left Paris in 1917 to 1932, the artist's fiftieth birthday.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO RIC

Girard, Anne.

Summary: When Eva Gouel moves to Paris from the countryside, she is full of ambition and dreams of stardom. Though young and inexperienced, she manages to find work as a costumer at the famous Moulin Rouge, and it is here that she first catches the attention of Pablo Picasso, a rising star in the art world. A brilliant but eccentric artist, Picasso sets his sights on Eva, and Eva can't help but be drawn...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

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Aubray, Camille

Summary: "For readers of Paula McLain, Nancy Horan, and Melanie Benjamin, this captivating novel is inspired by a little-known interlude in the artist's life. The French Riviera, spring 1936: It's off-season in the lovely seaside village of Juan-les-Pins, where seventeen-year-old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family-owned Cafe Paradis. A mysterious new patron who's slipped out of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUB

Merberg, Julie.

Summary: Set against the backdrop of well-known works by the artist, Pablo Picasso, rhyming text explores the expressions and activities of various people, from a young girl catching a dove to a serious boy steering a donkey.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2006

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE MER

Summary: "'Genius: Picasso' is the second season of National Geographic's first fully scripted drama series. Diving into the life and loves of the brilliant Spanish artist Pablo Picasso ... this season showcases Picasso's significant and wide-ranging contribution to modern art. Exploring the Spanish expatriate's devotion to his craft, the series also reveals Picasso's relationships with other well-known...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GEN

Roe, Sue

Summary: When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre ... The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills-- artificial and real-- and in the cafes and cabarets of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 ROE

Richardson, John

Summary: This volume reveals the young artist Pablo Picasso in the somewhat rebellious role of "the painter of modern life", a role that stipulated the brothel as the noblest subject for a modern artist. Hence his great breakthrough painting, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, " with which this book opens. As well as portraying Picasso as a revolutionary, Richardson analyzes the more compassionate side of his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO RIC

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