A Foreigner Called Picasso: Volume 1

This book was published on the occasion of A Foreigner Called Picasso at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. Curated by Annie Cohen-Solal and Vérane Tasseau, the exhibition was organized in association with the Musée national Picasso–Paris and the Palais de la Porte Dorée–Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris. Spanning the entirety of Pablo Picasso’s career in France from 1900 through 1973, A Foreigner Called Picasso reframes our perception of Picasso with a focus on his status as a permanent foreigner in France. This volume fully illustrates the more than eighty-five artworks in the exhibition with plates and installation photographs, organized chronologically into seven sections: “Prelude”; “1900–1906: ‘Anarchist under Surveillance’ in the Labyrinth of Paris”; “1906–1919: Leader of the Avant-Garde”; “1919–1939: Mercurial Artist under Siege”; “1940–1944: ‘France for the French!’”; “1944–1955: The Communist Party as a ‘Homeland’”; and “1955–1973: Head of a Mediterranea