{"product_id":"georg-baselitz-akademie-rousseau-exhibition-catalogue-cfa-contemporary-fine-arts-berlin-9783864423161","title":"Georg Baselitz: Akademie Rousseau: Exhibition Catalogue Cfa Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin","description":"\"There is a remarkable painting in the Picasso room at Kunstmuseum in Basel: a full-length portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire with his muse, Marie Laurencin. It was Henri Rousseau who ­painted this wonderful picture. Only I had remembered it as a self-portrait of Rousseau with ­Madame Rousseau. Marie Laurencin was Apollinaire's muse, and Cl mence Rousseau was Rousseau's muse. As it happens, Franz Marc painted a portrait of Rousseau for Der Blaue Reiter, and Picasso also had a self-portrait by Henri. There's a quite intimate photograph, taken by Andr  Gom s, of Picasso holding Rousseau's self-portrait in his right hand and the portrait of Rousseau's wife in his left hand. Picasso, that constructor of novel objects and ­audacious paintings, loved Rousseau, the painter of things in rigidified grace. Even Rousseau's gaze in his self-portrait is stiff, directed at his own work, in which objects that we ourselves are familiar with look different--Gothic, Byzantine, somehow not the way we are used to seeing them. (...)\" --Georg Baselitz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Snoeck Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783864423161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64","brand":"Bruno Brunnet, Siegfried Gohr, Georg Baselitz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38400661389493,"sku":"9783864423161","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_60f0fbbe-37a8-4e0b-852f-b984faccfe2e.jpg?v=1612165233","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/georg-baselitz-akademie-rousseau-exhibition-catalogue-cfa-contemporary-fine-arts-berlin-9783864423161","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}