Spanish.
Format 11.5 x 15.4 cm
Rustic binding with die-cut flap
100 pages
ISBN: 9788494134241
Collection of writings about the painter, composed of letters, interviews, chronicles and testimonies, including the words of the artist and Guillaume de Apollinaire, among others. It also includes the chronicle of the commemorative banquet that Picasso organized in his studio. from the Bateaux-Lavoir published in the magazine Les Soirées de Paris in 1914.
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- HENRI ROUSSEAU, autobiographical note (1895)
"I sent my large painting, everyone likes it, I think you will develop your literary talent and avenge me for all the insults and affronts you have received. I know from Picasso that you write art reviews in L'Intransigeant."
- HENRI ROUSSEAU, Letter to Guillaume Apollinaire (March 11, 1910)
<Those who disliked him were in a certain sense obliged to give their opinion of his work. Of course this serenity was nothing more than pride. The Customs Officer was conscious of his strength. Once or twice he let slip that he was the best painter of his time. And it is possible that in many respects he was not far wrong. For although
"As a young man he did not receive an artistic education (and this is evident); it seems that in his later years, when he wanted to paint, he watched the masters with passion and was almost the only one among the moderns to guess their secrets. His faults consisted only sometimes in an excess of sentiment, more often in a popular bonhomie from which he could not escape and which contrasted quite sharply with his artistic projects and with the attitude he had been able to adopt in contemporary art. But what a wealth of qualities! And how significant that artistic youth has guessed them! We must congratulate them, especially if their intention is not only to honour them, but also to make them their own."
- GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE, "The Triumph of the Douanier Rousseau"
(L'Intransigeant, April 20, 1911)
