Picasso: Forty Years of His Art

by Alfred H. Barr Jr. (Editor), The Museum of Modern Art

This book is an accompaniment to the exibition presented in Chicago, New York and Boston in 1940.

208 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1939

About the author

Alfred Hamilton Barr, Jr. (1902 -1981) known as Alfred H. Barr, Jr., was an American art historian and the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

From that position, he was one of the most influential forces in the development of popular attitudes toward modern art; for example, his arranging of the blockbuster Van Gogh exhibition of 1935, in the words of author Bernice Kert, was "a precursor to the hold Van Gogh has to this day on the contemporary imagination."

Reviews

[Foxtower · Rating 3 out of 5]

I likes all the photos, even if they were in black and white, and it gets up close and personal with statements by the artist in 1923 and 1935.