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Long-standing Friend And Art-dealer: Picasso said once that a painting could only ever be imitative, whereas a line drawing could never be. We know this from his long-standing friend and art-dealer Daniel Henry Kahnweiler, to whom he mentioned his ideas about drawings in a conversation in autumn 1933. Picasso believed that drawings were far more important for the artistic rendering of ideas, because they had more immediacy. Another remark of Picasso's sheds even more light on his concept of art: "What the artist does is less important than what he is." One is tempted to continue this quotation, saying that what the artist is can only find expression in utter and complete spontaneousness.
Values. There are three possible values in every Oriental rug—the utility value, the art value, and the collector's value. The utility value depends entirely upon the durability of the fabric as a Floor covering. The art value depends upon the color and design rather than upon the texture. The collector's value depends upon the rarity of the art value. It follows that Oriental Rugs are valued and priced according to individual worth, and that the honest dealer can neither ask more than a rug is wrorth nor confess attempted extortion by radical price reductions. The fairness of the price is proportionate usually to the honesty of the dealer. To judge the quality of an Oriental rug is a matter requiring considerable study, and the amateur will be well-advised not to attempt this without the aid of an expert or a dealer whose reputation is unquestioned.
The most outstanding example of this technique is his aquatint etching of 1936, called "Faun Unveiling a Woman". About 100 of Picasso's etchings made between 1930 and 1937 have been put together in a magnificent collection of his graphic art, and are exhibited at the "Suite Vollard", named after Picasso's friend and art dealer Ambroise Vollard, who promoted them. One of Picasso's favourite themes was "the sculptor's studio". |
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