A Foreigner Called Picasso - Volume II

Spanning the entirety of Pablo Picasso’s career in France from 1900 through 1973, A Foreigner Called Picasso reframes our perception of the artist with a focus on his status as a permanent foreigner in France. The two-volume exhibition catalogue was published on the occasion of A Foreigner Called Picasso at Gagosian, New York. Curated by Annie Cohen-Solal and Verane Tasseau, the exhibition was organized in association with the Musée national Picasso–Paris and the Palais de la Porte Dorée–Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris. This second volume, edited by Cohen-Solal, reproduces historical material and ephemera that contextualize the exhibited works, including sketches, printed matter, letters, and installation, studio, and personal photography. Divided into four sections—“The Picasso Paradox,” “The Triple Stigma,” “A Multi-Resource Strategist,” and “Picasso Our Contemporary”—it also contains thirteen illustrated essays and conversations that explore the important new perspectives prompted by the exhibition; several essays are published in English for the first time, following a French catalogue on the subject (Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2021). Among the featured texts by the curators, Picasso experts, social scientists, and intellectuals at large are “A Group of Saltimbanques and the Ordeals of the Wars” by Cohen-Solal; “When Chicago Met Picasso” by Silvia Beltrametti; “Smuggling Identities: Picasso at the Borders of Catalonia” by Peter Sahlins; and “Guernica: An Odyssey in Time and Space” by Jeremy Adelman.