Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L’amour fou 2000 Ruscha was also working on

Ruscha was also working on the Insects portfolio of silkscreen prints

The bilingual (English/Italian) catalogue is designed as a board book with a die-cut form that echoes the shape of one of the exhibited piano sculptures

Here is a man with a magic lantern head

all of which share a botanical theme unusual in the artist’s earlier output

and historical concepts

Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L’amour fou 2000 Ruscha was also working onThis poster featuring Marie Thrse accoude (1939) was produced in 2011, in conjunction with Picasso and Marie Thrse: Lamour fou at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. The exhibition, curated by Picasso biographer John Richardson and Marie Thrse Walters granddaughter, art historian Diana Widmaier Picasso, gathered more than eighty paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints inspired by Walter, one of Picassos favorite models and enduring passions.