Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is without doubt the most prolific and influential artist of the recently ended twentieth century. The various steps that critics and historians have managed to identify in his long career have been more helpful with regard to the classification of his works than in their analysis and interpretation. Abandoning the traditional use of subject matter to achieve variety and meaning, Picasso gradually reduced his options to a handful of standardized motifs but used a vast array of different styles as the principal means of communicating ideas and feelings.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is without doubt the most prolific and influential artist of the recently ended twentieth century.The various steps that critics and historians have managed to identify in his long career have been more helpful with regard to the classification of his works than in their analysis and interpretation. Abandoning the traditional use of subject matter to achieve variety and meaning, Picasso gradually reduced his options to a handful of standardized motifs but used a vast array of different styles as the principal means of communicating ideas and feelings.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is without doubt the most prolific and influential artist of the recently ended twentieth century. The various steps that critics and historians have managed to identify in his long career have been more helpful with regard to the classification of his works than in their analysis and interpretation. Abandoning the traditional use of subject matter to achieve variety and meaning, Picasso gradually reduced his options to a handful of standardized motifs but used a vast array of different styles as the principal means of communicating ideas and feelings.

We now discover another Picasso, very different from the ones we have met in the two previous volumes Picasso, The Early Years, 1881-1907 a n d Picasso Cubism, 1907-1917. During the period between 1917 and 1926 the artist puts on his dress suit, lives in the elegant part of Paris, socialises with high society and returns to Classicism.

Like that of other great artists of this century, the oeuvre of Antoni Tàpies has been the object over recent years of an exhaustive study that has established the definitive cataloguing of his complete works. Of this catalogue raisonné, coordinated by Anna Agustí and featuring a chronological study by the artist’s son Miquel, we now present the eighth volume of the Antoni Tàpies catalogue raisonné includes the works done between 1998 and 2004.

Like that of other great artists of this century, the oeuvre of Antoni Tàpies has been the object over recent years of an exhaustive study that has established the definitive cataloguing of his complete works. Of this catalogue raisonné, coordinated by Anna Agustí and featuring a chronological study by the artist’s son Miquel, we now present the eighth volume of the Antoni Tàpies catalogue raisonné includes the works done between 1998 and 2004.

Like that of other great artists of this century, the oeuvre of Antoni Tàpies has been the object over recent years of an exhaustive study that has established the definitive cataloguing of his complete works. Of this catalogue raisonné, coordinated by Anna Agustí and featuring a chronological study by the artist’s son Miquel, we now present the eighth volume of the Antoni Tàpies catalogue raisonné includes the works done between 1998 and 2004.

Like that of other great artists of this century, the oeuvre of Antoni Tàpies has been the object over recent years of an exhaustive study that has established the definitive cataloguing of his complete works. Of this catalogue raisonné, coordinated by Anna Agustí and featuring a chronological study by the artist’s son Miquel, we now present the eighth volume of the Antoni Tàpies catalogue raisonné includes the works done between 1998 and 2004.