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- A unique collection of articles on the French avant-garde artist Francis Picabia, written by the late American figurative painter Philip Pearlstein who died in New York on December 17, 2022
- Illustrated with artworks by Picabia, Marcel Duchamp and Pearlstein, along with a facsimile of Pearlstein's 1955 M.A. thesis 'The Paintings of Francis Picabia 1908-1930'
- With a foreword by art writer and critic Robert Storr on the importance of Pearlstein as a precursor of postmodernism
About the author
Philip Pearlstein (1924–2022) was an American painter best known for modernist realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in Realist art. Pearlstein has written many articles for major art journals and his contribution to contemporary art is acknowledged by his many awards and honours. His paintings are held in collections of over 70 public art museums including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; MoMA, New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Robert Storr is an art critic, curator and artist. He has written widely on art and has interviewed some of the world’s leading artists. Storr’s writing has appeared in countless books and exhibition catalogues as well as in Art in America, Artforum, Parkett and ARTnews. He has curated exhibitions internationally and was the first North American curator of the Venice Biennale in 2007. His bestselling Interviews on Art (2017) and Writings on Art 1980–2005 (2020) were published by HENI.