all i want

Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1968

dream by the sea; big sur, california

Dennis Stock, Pacific Grove, 1972.

Pablo Picasso with Bob, the family’s Pyrenean Mountain dog at Boisgeloup 1930

He owned many breeds over the years, including terriers, poodles, a Boxer, a Great Pyrenees, a German Shepherd and Afghan Hounds. The best known of his pet dogs is Lump the dachshund. The relationship between artist and dog was described as a ‘love affair’ and Lump appears in a number of Picasso’s paintings. He lived with Picasso until a week before the artist’s death in 1973.

Florilège des Amours de Ronsard, Henri Matisse, 1948, Art Institute of Chicago: Prints and Drawings

Print and Drawing Club Fund Size: 205 × 230 mm (image); 383 × 281 mm (sheet) Medium: Lithograph in sanguine on cream wove Japanese vellum

L'Après-Midi d'un Faune: Le Faune lll, plate seventeen from Poesies de Mallarmé, Henri Matisse, 1932, Art Institute of Chicago: Prints and Drawings

Matisse’s first livre d’artiste (artist’s book), Poems of Stéphane Mallarmé (Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé) was the second publication produced by Albert Skira. The first was Pablo Picasso’s illustrations for Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Les Métamorphoses), published the year before. Both series use the simple power of the etched line to suggest volume and movement. In the case of Matisse, he avoided heavy shading so as not to detract from the ethereality of Mallarmé’s poetry. While inspired by the poems, Matisse’s prints stand alone as works of art and call upon some of his most iconic imagery: flowers, nudes, and portraits. Lt. Col. A. Peter Dewey Memorial Size: 304 × 240 mm (image); 332 × 251 mm (sheet, plate mark not visible) Medium: Etching in black on ivory laid Japanese vellum