![]() As John Golding writes in The Independent, Picasso had always gravitated toward the literary he wrote prolifically, was “attracted to art that had a literary flavor,” and “preferred the company of writers, particularly poets, to that of other painters and sculptors.” Golding writes of the artist’s particular love for the Spanish Baroque poet Luis de Gongora, whose work he illustrated in a 1948 edition, and who was to “affect the future development of Picasso’s art in a way that his other literary collaborations did not.” But this may be a hasty judgment. Nonetheless, when it came to literature, he made well over 50 exceptions, illustrating the work of scores of authors he admired. ![]() ![]() The modern painter hated to work on spec and resisted taking commissions. Pablo Picasso had a long and complex relationship with book illustration. ![]()
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