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Aug. 31st, 2008 07:13 amI think some of you know that I am very much interested in the drawings and etchings of Picasso. This has been true since I first saw a piece from the Vollard Suite in the MFA last year at the time of my drawing class.
I saw more of the Vollard Suite when in Northampton last year with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
trouble4hire. A group of five sketches together, and I found it an intense experience.
More than a year later, I was finally able to acquire a catalogue of all hundred Vollard Suite images, and this I have pored over. The Internet brings us all things in time...
The other day on the T I was reading the Metro, and it said there was a collection of THIRTY prints from the Vollard Suite showing at the Pucker Gallery on Newbury Street. I think I may have gasped or squeaked. I asked both of my sweeties the same day if we could go.trouble4hire couldn't make it for scheduling reasons - today is the exhibit's last day and she is away for the weekend. So, I went with mrpet to check it out.
Wow. I thought it was intense to see five sketches together. Thirty sketches were overwhelming. The gallery docent appreciated my enjoyment and agreed with me, with every indication of sincerity, while I rambled about the Artist's Studio series and Picasso's line. She talked to me about drypoint and velvety texture when she saw that Deux Femmes Reposant moved me almost to tears. I said that I had a book of all the Vollard Suite pieces at home, but that sometimes it just doesn't translate to that medium. Which is true - when I looked at the reproduction in my book, it didn't move me. I certainly can't afford one of the original prints - they were going for twenty to sixty thousand dollars - but perhaps a better reproduction? Just of that one?
In honor of this occaision, I created a Picasso icon. Unfortunately I had to cut off the poor woman's head so you could see the lines of her body. Le sigh. I'm sure that's not what the artist intended.
I saw more of the Vollard Suite when in Northampton last year with
trouble4hire. A group of five sketches together, and I found it an intense experience.More than a year later, I was finally able to acquire a catalogue of all hundred Vollard Suite images, and this I have pored over. The Internet brings us all things in time...
The other day on the T I was reading the Metro, and it said there was a collection of THIRTY prints from the Vollard Suite showing at the Pucker Gallery on Newbury Street. I think I may have gasped or squeaked. I asked both of my sweeties the same day if we could go.
trouble4hire couldn't make it for scheduling reasons - today is the exhibit's last day and she is away for the weekend. So, I went with mrpet to check it out.Wow. I thought it was intense to see five sketches together. Thirty sketches were overwhelming. The gallery docent appreciated my enjoyment and agreed with me, with every indication of sincerity, while I rambled about the Artist's Studio series and Picasso's line. She talked to me about drypoint and velvety texture when she saw that Deux Femmes Reposant moved me almost to tears. I said that I had a book of all the Vollard Suite pieces at home, but that sometimes it just doesn't translate to that medium. Which is true - when I looked at the reproduction in my book, it didn't move me. I certainly can't afford one of the original prints - they were going for twenty to sixty thousand dollars - but perhaps a better reproduction? Just of that one?
In honor of this occaision, I created a Picasso icon. Unfortunately I had to cut off the poor woman's head so you could see the lines of her body. Le sigh. I'm sure that's not what the artist intended.