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A Life of Picasso, Vol 1: The Early Years, 1881-1906
A Life of Picasso Vol 1 The Early Years 18811906 Author:John Richardson This first volume of Richardson's prodigiously detailed and documented four-volume study takes Picasso to the age of twenty-five. It reveals how the adolescent Picasso struggled, through determination and study, to escape the shadow of his father's artistic failures. It describes his precocious success in Barcelona and Paris and the peri... more »od of rejection and despair that followed. We watch Picasso transform the prostitutes of the Saint-Lazare prison into Blue period madonnas and, later, the performers of the Montmartre circuses into Rose period harlequins. Volume 1 culminates in Picasso's dawning perception of himself as the messiah of the modern movement.« less