Picasso - The Self Portraits

Picasso – The Self Portraits is a hardcover art book that gathers, for the first time, a comprehensive study of Pablo Picasso's self-representation — many of the works reproduced here previously unpublished. The cover sets the tone: a raw linen canvas, frayed at the edges, carrying a close-cropped painted head in ochre, terracotta and slate blue against warm beige, with the title set in generous white capitals.

Art historian Pascal Bonafoux, encouraged by Picasso's widow Jacqueline, spent more than forty years tracing the artist through 170 drawings, paintings and photographs. The selection spans an entire career, from the first attributed self-portrait made at thirteen in 1894 to the final, unflinching image of 1972, a year before his death — student, young bohemian in Paris, harlequin, lover, husband, father, and ageing master facing his mortality.

Lavishly illustrated and generously sized, it reads as well on a coffee table or console as it does on a study shelf, its sand-toned spine sitting easily among neutral, gallery-like interiors. A considered gift for art lovers, historians and anyone drawn to the twentieth century's most restless self-portraitist.

• Author: Pascal Bonafoux
• Pages: 224
• Cover: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780500025833
• Dimensions: 20 x 2.5 x 26 cm
• Weight: 1.1 kg
• Colour: Beige / White
• Brand: Chulo