Picasso: His Life and Work

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University of California Press, Dec 18, 1981 - Art - 517 pages
This updated version of the celebrated biography contains a final chapter depicting the hurried creativity of Picasso's last years. A surrealist artist and organizer of a number of major exhibitions, Roland Penrose was a close friend of Picasso from 1935 until the latter's death in 1973.

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Origins and Youth 188195
1
Barcelona 18951901 22
22
The Blue Period 190104
65
Au Rendezvous des Poètes 190406
93
Les Demoiselles dAvignon 190609
125
The Creation of Cubism 190914
157
First World War Paris and Rome 191418
195
Beauty Must be Convulsive 191830
227
Second World War Royan and Paris 193945
325
Antibes and Vallauris 194554
357
La Californie 195458
391
Departure from Cannes
427
Le mas Notre Dame de Vie 196170
439
Last Years 197073
461
Postscript
479
Selected Bibliography
493

Sculpture and the Minotaur 193036
263
Guernica 193639
295

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