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Picasso's Las Meninas   Claustre Rafart Planas
  

In 1950 Picasso and Sabartés had a discussion about art. Picasso made a premonitory statement: "If one set out to copy Las Meninas in all good faith, let's say, when one got to a certain point and if the person doing the copying were me, I'd say: 'How about putting that girl a little more to the right or the left?' I'd try to do it in my own way, forgetting Velázquez. Trying it out, I'd surely end up modifying the light or changing it, because of having changed the position of the figure. And so, little by little, I'd be painting meninas that would seem detestable to the professional copyist; they wouldn't be the ones the copyist would believe he'd seen in Velázquez's canvas, but they'd be 'my' meninas".
Seven years later a new meninas would be born, Picasso's Las Meninas, a free interpretation that radically transformed the aesthetic language of Velázquez's work.

· Date of issue: november 2001.

(This book contains more than 100 full-color pictures and a most interesting prologue by Valeriano Bozal. Also available in spanish or catalan editions.) 		 
 

Art book | ISBN 84-95623-15-3 | 144 pàgs. | 22 x 22 cm | 23,00 €
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Claustre Rafart i Planas is a graduate in Geography and History from the University of Barcelona, specialising in Contemporary History. In the professional field, she has been a specialist in Art and History for Barcelona City Council since 1992. She was in charge of the Department of Communication and Cultural Action at the Museu Picasso de Barcelona from 1996 to 2002. She worked as coordinator of the seminar 'Picasso in Spanish art. Antecedents and consequences' (1990) and as technical coordinator of the seminar 'The avant-gardes reach 100' (1994) at the Museu Picasso. She also took part as a teacher in the Museology Courses organised by the Generalitat de Catalunya (1984-1986).

She has published several articles on specific aspects of Picasso's life and work in catalogues for temporary exhibitions and in specialist magazines. She is also the author of the Museu Picasso de Barcelona. Guidebook (1998) and co-author of the volume of Catalunya Romànica devoted to El Solsonès. She published the monographs Picasso's Las Meninas (2001) and The Landscapes of Picasso's Barcelona (2007) both in Meteora.