Chapter 8 : Picasso’s sketchbooks

Sometimes, Goetz dragged along his friend Picasso to Sennelier’s. Picasso had become a neighbor since he moved, in 1937, into his studio on rue des Grands-Augustins, in his Dora Maar period and where he painted Guernica. Picasso knew well the name of Sennelier, and his store. From 1923, the master was using albums like sketchbooks, “‘generic chapters inextricable from his œuvre.”23 Amongst the 175 sketchbooks that have been found and that Picasso had worked on between 1894 and 1967, some of the cardboard covers carry the stamp of the Quai Voltaire shop. 1924,1925,1926,1927,1930- 32,1940,1947,1952... Picasso remained faith- ful to the cream paper called “Japanese Simili Paper.” In a gesture immortalized by the cine- ma director, in his lm The Picasso Mystery, the artist traces in ink or crayon the sketches, sometimes with a watercolor wash, or with the addition of pastel, studies for La Coiffure (1923), for Grand Nu sur un fauteuil rouge (1929) et Femme se coiffant (1940).According to the P.Richard's Book