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Picasso: The artist of the century
The artist of the Skira, The artist of the Skira/ FIRST First Edition, First Printing. Published by Skira/Rizzoli, 1977. Quarto. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new, with some shelf/edgewear.Seller 561601 Photo We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!
256 pages, Hardcover
First published October 23, 1972
About the author
Jean Leymarie
209 booksJean Leymarie (17 July 1919 – 9 March 2006) was a French art historian and museum director.
Leymarie began his museum career in 1945 after studying literature and art history in Toulouse and Paris as an Assistant to the Paintings Department at the Musée du Louvre from 1944 to 1949 and Curator of the Musée de Grenoble from 1950 to 1955.
He opened the Musée national d'art moderne, then housed in the Palais de Tokyo and undertook a reorganization of the collections in preparation for the museum's transfer to the Centre Pompidou.
With the opening of the Centre Pompidou, Jean Leymarie was appointed Director of Studies at the Ecole du Louvre and, above all, Director of the Academy de France in Rome, a post he held until 1984.
Leymarie began his museum career in 1945 after studying literature and art history in Toulouse and Paris as an Assistant to the Paintings Department at the Musée du Louvre from 1944 to 1949 and Curator of the Musée de Grenoble from 1950 to 1955.
He opened the Musée national d'art moderne, then housed in the Palais de Tokyo and undertook a reorganization of the collections in preparation for the museum's transfer to the Centre Pompidou.
With the opening of the Centre Pompidou, Jean Leymarie was appointed Director of Studies at the Ecole du Louvre and, above all, Director of the Academy de France in Rome, a post he held until 1984.
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