Volume I, 1881-1906 (Life of Picasso, 1881-1906)
Paperback, 548 pages
English language
Published Dec. 20, 1996 by Random House.
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.
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.
This is not a review, but a remark.
Picasso is well limned here, that is fine. The thing that comes off as petty is how Richardson incessantly bad-mouths Gertrude Stein. Richardson is of the camp of believers for whom Gertrude was a fraud, while Leo Stein was the real genius. I do not share this view.
