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Work and Isolation. For time is of the essence; though Picasso is in good health (he eats sparingly in the big farmhouse kitchen at Mougins and rations himself to one glass of wine with meals), he hides. "If I received everyone who wanted to see me for just ten minutes...
Immovable Object. If everything Picasso painted up to 1906 were subtracted, it would leave no real gap in the history of modern art. But in that year Picasso began his advance to Cubism. Perhaps the first unqualified masterpiece in his career was his portrait of Gertrude Stein (14). "Picasso," Stein...
He always went to the same telephone booth in a gas station to make his calls. One day the owner's wife overheard him saying something about a painting. When he hung up, the owner tailed him on his motorcycle, while his wife called the police. The thief tried...
One of the hidden forks in American art history was reached on Jan. 29, 1948, when a painter named Barnett Newman painted a thin, rough orange stripe down the exact center of a small dark red canvas, and left it alone. It is hardly an exaggeration that most of the...
A painting like Untitled (Number 2), 1950, now looks like a singular prophecy of the stripe work that dominated New York galleries 15 years later; it predicts Noland all the way, from the long narrow format of canvas to the pure, hard-edged bands of red and black. (Asked if...