"The Surrealist Picasso" will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue, edited by the Fondation Beyeler under the supervision of the exhibition curator, Anne Baldassari, and published by Flammarion, Paris. The catalogue consists of two sections.
The first, issued for the exhibition opening, is a basic catalogue in three languages (German/French/English). It contains a fundamental text by Anne Baldassari and a newly compiled, extensive chronology of Picasso's surrealist phase. The volume comprises 256 pages with 223 full-color illustrations, and is priced at CHF 49.-.
At the beginning of September 2005, a colloquium will be held at the Fondation Beyeler, the contributions to which are to be published in a second volume. Foreseen are texts by the following authors in particular: Werner Spies (on Picasso and Surrealist Sculpture), Etienne-Alain Hubert (on Picasso and Surrealist Literature), and Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron (on Picasso's Surrealist stage sets), Marie-Laure Bernadac (on Picasso's poetic writings). The museum's own author, Philippe Büttner, will contribute a text on Picasso and Surrealist Drawing.