Irascible: The Combative Life of Douglas Cooper, Collector and Friend of Picasso Gary D. Astrachan which features a cutout doorway

which features a cutout doorway that embodies the dichotomies present in the artist’s oeuvre

This publication documents the thirty exhibited works—twenty-nine paintings and a vitrine sculpture containing a severed shark preserved in formaldehyde—through individual plate images

professor of English at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

A unique milestone in art book publishing

This reissue of At Twelve was printed using new scans and separations from Mann’s prints

Irascible: The Combative Life of Douglas Cooper, Collector and Friend of Picasso Gary D. Astrachan which features a cutout doorwayThis lively book by Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi recounts the adventures of self taught English art historian and critic Douglas Cooper (19111984). Cooper began collecting works by Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Lger, and Pablo Picasso in the 1930s and made his name as a scholar with his catalogue of the Courtauld Collection in 1954 and his catalogue raisonn of Griss work in 1977. He also organized exhibitions by Braque and Paul Gauguin,