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Paintings, works on Paper, sculpture: 1880-1970
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Also On View:
Master Graphics Prints & Drawings
PICASSO: Dulio BarnabÉ
Works on Paper (1914-1961)
"I consider Barnabè as the great precursor of
future times, as the artist who will astonish and
mark his epoch with the clearest, noblest and
most accessible language in the world: clearest,
noblest and most accessible language because
of being the most pure."
Jean Bouret
Prisme des Arts, no.19
Paris, 1959
R. Stanley Johnson has published over ninety scholarly
catalogues, ranging from Old Master prints and drawings to the art of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries and covering artists from Dürer, Rembrandt,
Piranesi and Goya to Cassatt, Villon, Czobel, Gromaire, Barnabè, Matisse, Léger
and Picasso. He also has lectured in museums across America. His recent writings
include essays on “Andrea Mantegna” and “Reflections on Collecting”, both
published by the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris in Nouvelles de l’Estampe. Now
an essential reference on the subject, his book Cubism & La Section d’Or:
Reflections on the Development of the Cubist Epoch 1907-1922 was first published
in 1991.
After his degree in languages and archaeology at Northwestern University, the
author spent fourteen years of study in Europe. These included two years of
classical languages and philosophy at the universities of Vienna and
Perugia, as well as art history for nearly a decade under the tutelage of the
late Prof. André Chastel at the Institut d’Art et d’Archéologie at the Sorbonne.
In honor of his many cultural achievements, in 1983 the Minister of Culture of
France decorated the author as an Officier des Arts et des Lettres.