Hidden Portraits

Sue Roe

ISBN 10: 0571385982 / ISBN 13: 9780571385980

Published by Faber And Faber Ltd. Apr 2025, 2025

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Neuware -A reappraising history of the remarkable women who Pablo Picasso shared his life with - whose individual stories and influence on the artist have been overlooked until now 298 pp. Englisch.

Seller Inventory # 9780571385980

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hidden Portraits
• Publisher: Faber And Faber Ltd. Apr 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571385982
• ISBN 13: 9780571385980
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 163H x 32D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 163 millimeters height by 32 millimeters depth
• Weight: 522 grams

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Synopsis

''Insightful and original'' - Lisa Hilton

''Roe has a deep knowledge of the period and the milieu.'' - Sue Prideaux

‘Long overdue . . . [Roe] brings Picasso’s lovers and muses from the shadows into the limelight.’ - Herald

''A compelling tale . . . Brilliantly insightful and well-written.'' - Times

Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Therese Walter, Dora Maar, Francoise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque. These six extraordinary women shared Pablo Picasso’s life and were instrumental in his career, yet they have long been dismissed as simply passive models or muses.

Hidden Portraits reveals that their lives were - without exception - remarkable. All six were unconventional, independent and talented. All six were tested, both by Picasso’s subterfuges and betrayals, and the wider social turbulence they lived through. The extent to which each influenced Picasso’s art in major new directions has never been fully acknowledged.

Sue Roe delves deeply into the truth of the women’s experiences for the first time, to tell the story of Picasso’s women from their point of view. Her enthralling book spans seventy years, from Bohemian early twentieth century Montmartre to the glittering Riviera in the 1920s, through Paris under Nazi occupation and beyond Picasso’s final years of seclusion.

The result is a riveting, atmospheric read about six fascinating and charismatic women, outstanding in their own time, whose individual stories have up to now been glossed over or hidden from view.