NEW YORK, NY.- Za Mir Press announces the publication of Pablo Picasso, André Salmon and “Young French Painting,” which features a revised translation of Salmon’s La Jeune Peinture française (1912) and an introduction to the text by renowned Salmon expert Jacqueline Gojard, Professor of Literature, University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), and the executor of Salmon’s literary estate. Additionally, this book offers copious annotations written by Professor Gojard and Salmon scholar Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, along with 31 illustrations, and a useful index. Available through Amazon. ISBN 9781950191024. $20.00; £16.17; € 17.94.

Pablo Picasso, André Salmon and “Young French Painting” joins Pablo Picasso and André Salmon: The Painter, the Poet and the Portraits (Za Mir Press, 2019) in this series about the relationship between the celebrated Spanish artist and his close Parisian friend, the poet/novelist/journalist/art critique André Salmon (1881-1969).

André Salmon is best known for his “Anecdotal History of Cubism,” the second chapter in his book La Jeune Peinture française, a beginner’s guide to this radically innovative movement which revolutionized art during the early 20th century. Salmon was one of the primary champions and interpreters of Cubism. Moreover, he was the only critic to identify Picasso’s masterpiece Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) as a cornerstone for the movement. He also gave the painting its present title when he included it in its first public exhibition, the group show L’Art Moderne en France (July 1916).

Author and Translator

Jacqueline Gojard, Maître de conférences hors classe, Université de Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), has published numerous books and essays on Salmon, Apollinaire, and other 20th-century French writers. She also edited and provided commentary on Salmon’s novels, memoirs and chronicles, a bibliography of his work, his correspondence with Max Jacob (Gallimard, 2009), and his correspondence with Guillaume Apollinaire (Claire Paulhan, 2022).

Translator and Editor:

Beth Gersh-Nešić annotated and translated André Salmon on French Modern Art (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Her book The Early Criticism of André Salmon: A Study of His Thoughts on Cubism (Garland Publishing, 1991), along with other publications, contributes to the literature on Salmon’s key position in the history of Cubism. Dr. Gersh-Nesic is the director of New York Arts Exchange, teaches art history at Mercy College in New York, contributes essays on art to the online magazine Bonjour Paris, and manages the official André Salmon website www.andresalmon.org and blog andresalmon-poet.blogspot.com.