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...show, and "My Search for a French Tickler in Japan" by young Mimi Sheraton, later the Times food critic and a food writer for Time. (I didn't read to the end to see if she found one.) "The Brothel in Art" featured works by Hogarth, Utamaro, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso. The book excerpt was from the 18th century novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill, which the Supreme Court would absolve from the charge of pornography on the same day it condemned Ginzburg...
...years Maar and Picasso spent together spanned the most tumultuous events of the century, and the passion of their liaison reflected them. The show captures it in detail, from courtship?Picasso's scrawling of her name over and over like a lovesick schoolboy, her coy note accompanying a photograph: "I found a portrait of myself and as I seem to remember you asked me for one, I am bringing it to you"? to the darker paintings that hint at its end. Maar was the primary model for the Weeping Woman series, eyes like basins pouring their tears for the misery...
...Above all, amid the romance and playfulness of the love affair and the artworks born of it, the 350 works on display here capture the fecundity of Picasso, and give an insight into the mechanics of genius. Here are the studies obsessively reworking an idea or theme, many of them threading though the painter's long life: classical mythology; the artist as minotaur or faun; the savage beauty of the bullfight. The same subject is painted over and over, and because Picasso dated his works precisely, the astonished visitor understands that half a wall of work is the output...
...Picasso's compulsion to create art was total, and it seems he saw everything as a potential canvas. That drive is illustrated by the inclusion in the exhibition of works on sheets of newspaper, inside books, on postcards, even on matchboxes. The range of his expression is bewildering, from sculpture to ceramics, exquisitely detailed etchings to the brilliant oils of popular imagination. Anne Baldassari, director of the Mus?e Picasso in Paris, has employed her intimate knowledge of both artists?on elegant display in the catalogue?to produce a model of the curator's craft, a delicate fusion of the accessible...
...ended, so did the couple's relationship. Perhaps the passion burned out; perhaps the hysteria of the Weeping Woman became too much for the artist to indulge. By 1946, Picasso had taken up with 25-year-old Fran?oise Gilot, whom he had met three years earlier; he offered Maar a house at M?nerbes in Vaucluse. They were to see each other only once more, at a friend's house in 1954. Picasso had almost 20 years of work left in him; Maar, by then a recluse, survived him by 24 years. When Baldassari was invited to catalogue the contents...