See also:

"The metaphysical brothel or Picasso's theater", Esprit, January 1981, n° 1, pp. 76-79.

"Picasso in the ink mirror", in The Artist in Representation, texts collected by René Démoris. Paris, Éditions Desjonquères, 1993, pp. 199-213.

"The Perpetual Book Object: The Rose and the Dog (1958) by Tristan Tzara-Picasso." Text of a communication given at the Paris III seminar, April 11, 2013.

"On surrealism and baroque in Picasso's writing", Les Cahiers de l'Herne, Pablo Picasso, 2014, p. 264-270.

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Pablo Picasso

Edited by Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Gallimard, Paris, 1989

New edition:

PABLO PICASSO Writings . 1935-1959

Work published with the support of the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte – FABA

Translated by Albert Bensoussan, Alejo Carpentier, André Chastel, Pierre Daix and Paule-Marie Grand. Edition by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Christine Piot

Quarto Collection, Gallimard

THIS VOLUME CONTAINS

Writings (1935-1959): poetic writings – Desire Caught by the Tail – The Four Little Girls – The Burial of the Count of Orgaz – Manuscripts, notations and isolated phrases (1893-1964) – "Picasso writer or poetry out of its hinges" – Illustrated Life & Work – Dossier: "Picasso's Poetry. Abridged Dictionary" – Dossier: "Picasso and the practice of writing".

As he had confided to Jaime Sabartés in 1939, Pablo Picasso had dreamed of a book that "would be the most exact reflection of his personality and his most faithful portrait. One would see expressed there the disorder that is proper to him. Each page would be a real 'pot-pourri' without the slightest trace of arrangement or composition. [...] Simplicity and complexity would combine as in his paintings, drawings or texts, as in a piece of his apartment or his studio, as in himself". In the continuation of this desire, the present edition gives to read the complete writings of Picasso published in 1989, to which are added a large number of unpublished works discovered in the former collection of Dora Maar, in private collections and those of the Picasso museums (Paris, Barcelona). Composed in black pencil, in colors, in Chinese ink, with ballpoint pen or even with felt-tip pen, these texts adorn drawing paper, letter paper, back of envelopes, invitation cards,... Read more

936 pages, 225 ill., under illustrated cover, 140 x 205 mm Printing completed: 01-09-2021