A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932Now in paperback: the third volume of John Richardson’s magisterialLife 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. These are the years of his marriage to the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova—the mother of his only legitimate child, Paulo—and of his passionate affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter, who was, as well, his model and muse. A groundbreaking contribution to our understanding of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. |
Contents
Rome and the Ballets Russes 1917 | 3 |
Naples | 21 |
Parade | 31 |
The Ballet in Spain | 47 |
With Olga in Barcelona Fall 1917 | 59 |
Return to Montrouge Winter 191718 | 68 |
Marriage Summer 1918 | 85 |
Death of Apollinaire 1918 | 97 |
Still Lifes at La Vigie Summer 1924 | 265 |
La Danse 1925 | 274 |
The Villa Belle Rose Summer 1925 | 285 |
Masterpiece Studio 192526 | 297 |
Summer at La Haie Blanche 1926 | 311 |
MarieThérèse Walter 1927 | 323 |
Summer of Metamorphosis | 335 |
The Apollinaire Monument 192728 | 345 |
Rue la Boétie 191819 | 104 |
London and Tricorne 1919 | 113 |
Summer at SaintRaphaël The Gueridon | 134 |
Pulcinella 191920 | 144 |
Summer at JuanlesPins 1920 | 157 |
LEpoque des Duchesses 1921 | 171 |
Summer at Fontainebleau | 185 |
Beau Monde 192122 | 203 |
Paris 1923 | 218 |
Summer at Cap dAntibes | 233 |
Cocteau and Radiguet | 240 |
Mercure 1924 | 257 |
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