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Lisa Florman
the mit press • cambridge, massachusetts • london, england
myth and metamorphosis
Picasso’s Classical Prints of the 1930s
© 2000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Florman, Lisa Carol.
Myth and metamorphosis : Picasso’s classical prints of the 1930s / Lisa Florman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-06213-5 (hc. : alk. paper)
1. Picasso, Pablo, 1881–1973—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Classicism in art. I. Title.
F56 2000
—dc21 00-56220
For David
contents
List of Illustrations viii
Preface xvi
1 In the Background of Picasso’s Classical Prints 2
2 Metamorphic Images: Picasso’s Illustrations of Ovid 14
3 The Structure of the Vollard Suite 70
4 Of Myth and Picasso’s Minotaurs 140
5 The Classical Prints in the Context of Picasso’s Oeuvre 196
Notes 208
Bibliography 244
Index 256
illustrations
All works by Pablo Picasso © 2000 Estate
of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society Picasso, unpublished version of The Death of
×
(ARS), New York. All works by André Orpheus, 1930. Etching, cm.
Masson © 2000 Artists Rights Society Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. 16
(ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
FRONTISPIECE Masson, Furious Suns, 1925. Automatic
×
Picasso, The Minotauromachy (colored proof), drawing, ink, 32 24 cm. Galerie Louise
1935. Etching, × cm. Musée Leiris. 17
Picasso, Paris. © Photo RMN–Gérard Blot.
Engraving of an Etruscan mirror, from
Picasso, Three Women at the Fountain, 1921. O