Product Description: Now in paperback: the third volume of John Richardson’s magisterial Life of Picasso.Here is Picasso at the height of his powers in Rome and Naples, producing the sets and costumes with Cocteau for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, and visiting Pompei where the antique statuary fuel his obsession with classicism; in Paris, creating some of his most important sculpture and painting as part of a group that included Braque, Apollinaire, Miró, and Breton; spending summers in the South of France in the company of Gerald and Sara Murphy, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald...read more

A richly illustrated first volume in a multi-volume portrait of the seminal artist focuses on Picasso's early life in Málaga and Barcelona, his 1904 move to France, his Rose and Blue periods, and his work on Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the painting that would usher in the modernist period. Winner of the Whitbread Prize. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.