Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. ix + 548 pages, thick 4to, white cloth with black graphic, d.w. New York: Random House, (1991). A fine copy, as new in the original shrinkwrap.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

A Life of Picasso. Volume I: 1881-1906

Publisher

Random House, New York

Publication Date

1991

Language

English

ISBN 10

0394531922

ISBN 13

9780394531922

Binding

hardcover

Illustrator

Pablo Picasso

Condition

fine

Dust Jacket Condition

fine

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This first volume of the definitive four-volume biography by one of the world's leading Picasso experts. This first volume takes Picasso from his earliest years in Catalonia through his beginning as an artist to his discovery of Cubism and his involvement with the artistic and literary life of Paris.

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Remarkably intimate yet epic in sweep, this astonishing, continually engaging biography (first installment of a four-volume opus) neither glorifies Picasso nor paints him as an ogre. Richardson, who was the artist's close friend in France for a decade, attributes to Picasso's "demonic Andalusian birthright" his jolting oscillations between tenderness and cruelty, his self-dramatization, his harnessing of sexuality to his art. Like his much-maligned father, Jose Ruiz Blasco, an easy-going art teacher, Pablo, in Barcelona and Montmarte, was the star of a tertulia , a circle of cronies, who met regularly at a cafe to gossip and exchange views. As we watch the maternally overprotected prodigy transform himself into the daring, confident bohemian who took Paris by storm, Richardson ably untangles the skeinok of friendships and love affairs that Picasso transmuted into the personal mythology overflowing his canvases. Crammed with new insights, this synthesis weds an irresistible narrative to hundreds of wonderfully apposite photographs and art reproductions. It's one of the few books truly indispensable to understanding Picasso's artistic and spiritual growth.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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