Picasso - Endlessly Drawing Book

Fifty years after Picasso's death, this magnificent collection of drawings offers a career-spanning journey through the artist's brilliant and dynamic use of line, providing a window into the heart and soul of the most productive area within his work.

From his early studies to his final works, drawing was for Picasso a constantly renewed exploration of the power of line. Comprising over three hundred reproductions from his extensive oeuvre, this collection includes both well-known and rarely seen works, as well as images from his extraordinary notebooks. It features fifty insightful essays that examine the themes, symbols, and techniques that permeate Picasso's career— from monsters, crucifixions, and self-portraits to chalk, cross-hatching, and ink. It encompasses book illustrations and sculpture plans; colour and figure studies; collages and diary entries. Stunning colour reproductions allow the reader to appreciate the immense inventiveness and diversity in Picasso's work, from sinuous lines to engraving, from the delicate nuances of pastels to the deep black tones of ink.
In conjunction with the largest ever exhibition of Picasso's drawings and engravings, this fantastic volume is a must-have for students and admirers of one of the greatest artists of the modern era.