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...with the task of being the vitality-image or phallus of the West that every sketch, painting or dish tends to be greeted with the same ritually stupefied reverence. Hence la légende Picasso, which has been energetically prodded along by writers like Hélène Parmelin and photographers like David Douglas Duncan and Gjon Mili. From their breathless accounts a satyr rises, mythic, Gargantuan, and fatally easy to parody. The Maestro's working day, one might suppose, begins with a light breakfast of goat's testicles and salade niçoise. Then, surrounded...
Narrow Circle. The cercle Picasso is narrow now, and it has not changed in years-the painter Edouard Pignon, his wife Hélène Parmelin, Sir Roland Penrose (who wrote a biography of him), the British collector and art historian Douglas Cooper and Kahnweiler himself. Casual visitors, even ones who have known Picasso for years, are generally turned back by the intercom at the electronically controlled gates of his villa at Mougins, Notre-Dame...
...energy with which Picasso can still attack his work is demoniac. He still, on occasion, paints until 2 or 3 a.m., and regularly puts in eight hours a day in the studio. "I painted three canvases this afternoon," Picasso once told his amanuensis, Hélène Parmelin. "What's necessary is to do them, to do them, to do them! The more you paint, the nearer you get to something. You must do as many as possible." This obsessed machismo resembles nothing so much as a displacement of sex into art: the furious production of Picasso...
PICASSO: WOMEN, text by Hélène Parmelin. 199 pages. Editions Cercle d'Art and Harry N. Abrams, distributed by International Book Society, a division of Time Inc. $18. With the fond blessing of the master, Miss Parmelin, a Picasso student and familiar of his household, has assembled what amounts to a private exhibit: most of these 160 studies, here presented in stunning four-color plates, have not been shown before. The artist has illuminated many of them with his own comments, and has contributed the gay, gaudy "Picasso alphabet"-multicolor flourishes in chalk-that adorns Miss...
...playing with his children, feeding his parrots and his owl, greeting the visitors who dropped in every day. Then one day Picasso disappeared into his big second-floor studio, and became a changed man. "There was a tragic preoccupation on his face," says Novelist Hélène Parmelin. Every day after lunch he would go up to his studio "like someone going up to the scaffold." Picasso was attempting to repaint in his own manner and to do an analysis on canvas of the picture he considers one of the world's greatest-Velásquez...
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