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A Life of Picasso Volume i: 1881-1906: 1881-1906 v. 18
John Richardson
Synopsis "A Life of Picasso Volume i: 1881-1906: 1881-1906 v. 18"
A Life of Picasso magnificently combines meticulous scholarship with irresistible narrative. John Richardson draws on his close friendship with Picasso, his own diaries, with the collaboration of Picasso’s widow Jacqueline, and unprecedented access to his studio and papers to arrive at a profound understanding of the artist and his work. He has distilled a lifetime’s study into a book that is monumental, enthralling and perceptive – at last, an account of the artist’s life that is worthy of its subject.
Volume I sheds new light on Picasso’s innovations, obsessions and influences and reveals how his art and life were inextricably bound together. It explores his Spanish roots: his intensely Andalusian nature, his adolescence in Corunna and Madrid, and his passion for Barcelona, where he becomes the hero of Catalan ‘modernisme’. It chronicles his formative early years in Paris and his complex relationship with Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob and Gertrude Stein during the Blue and Rose periods. At the end of the book we see Picasso already poised to become the messiah of modern art, ready to develop into one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.
