Böcker av Pascal Bonafoux

Supremely successful at the beginning of his life; lonely, bankrupt and virtually ignored at its end, Rembrandt produced some of the most powerful and psychologically penetrating works in the whole of world art. Poverty, illness, the deaths of his wife, children and devoted mistress ‿ nothing deflected him from his inner vision and his unique handling of light: which would change the course of painting for ever.

The first book dedicated to Picasso's self-portraits, many held in private collections and published here for the first time. Much has been said and written about Picasso's life and art, but until now his self-portraits have never been studied and presented in a single book, perhaps because the artist always left many doubts about his work. However, there is no doubt that Picasso represented himself ceaselessly, whether in a dashed-off pencil sketch, as a flourish at the bottom of a letter, or on a giant canvas. At the suggestion of Picasso's widow Jacqueline, the distinguished art historian Pascal Bonafoux began researching Picasso's self-portraits more than forty years ago. This meticulously researched book presents the fruits of his decades-long project. From the first attributed painting in 1894 as a thirteen-year-old boy, until Picasso's final self-portrait in 1972, a year before his death, Bonafoux charts the evolution of the artist's life and art. Here is Picasso as a student; as a young bohemian; an impetuous artist in Paris; as harlequin; as lover, husband and father; and finally, as an old man confronting his mortality. The book comprises about 170 drawings, paintings and photographs, some from private collections and previously unpublished, bringing together for the first time theattributed self-portraits of this genius of 20th-century art.

Rembrandt (1606-1669), celebrated as the supreme painter of the human condition, famously turned the intense spotlight of his empathetic vision on himself. In the course of his sixty years, he produced almost one hundred self-portraits, in mediums ranging from paintings to drawings to engravings. Rembrandt by Rembrandt reproduces all of Rembrandt's self-portraits, with biographical commentary about each one, in an appealing portable format that makes a perfect gift for any art lover.

An account of Vincent Van Gogh, together with a selection of his works.