AMEN Picasso Candle: Ginger Black-and-white In addition to the photographs

In addition to the photographs

This collector’s edition contains a copy of Calder by Matter and a portfolio of six stamped and numbered gelatin silver prints by Herbert Matter inside a handmade aluminum box

Sebastian Smee writes of Francis Bacon’s time in Paris

when the artist was developing his ideas about color and space and exploring the limitations of the flat plane

formally and conceptually reimagining established aesthetics and techniques by repurposing multiple woodblocks already carved for earlier ukiyo-e prints

AMEN Picasso Candle: Ginger Black-and-white In addition to the photographsThis candle belongs to a series produced by the French candle company AMEN in collaboration with Diana Widmaier Ruiz Picasso for the Muse Picasso Paris. Poured by hand in Grasse, the French capital of perfumery, each candle is made with natural vegetal wax, comes in carbon negative mushroom packaging, and features a reusable porcelain jar emblazoned with an image of a different artwork by Picasso. These four images represent my grandmother, Marie