Picasso. Au cœur des ténèbres. 1939-1945. Essais and Melanesia

and Melanesia

he has given new life to the most modest street furniture

Italian and French texts

but also funerary monuments or temples dedicated to music (the Pieta) or the glorification of heroes during the Baroque era

Mateusz recounts the discreet lives that these small businesses host

Picasso. Au cœur des ténèbres. 1939-1945. Essais and MelanesiaFrom Royan, which corresponds to the episode of the Phoney War, to his establishment in Paris during the Occupation, in the studio on the rue des Grands Augustins, the work focuses on the significant artistic milestones of this period, the two peaks of which are undoubtedly L'Aubade (1942) and L'Homme au mouton (1944). During these years, faithful to his obsession with the female figure, Picasso constantly returned to the themes of portraiture and the