A Life of Picasso Volume III: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932
- ISBN-10
- 1845951298
- ISBN-13
- 9781845951290
- Category
- Artists
- Pages
- 592
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- John Richardson
Description
The author introduces material on the artist's early training in religious art, and establishes his passion for Barcelona and Catalan "modernisme". There are also portraits of Apollinaire, Max Jacob and Gertrude Stein who made up "The Picasso Gang". The book won the 1991 Whitbread biography award.
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