Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led to a friendship, a love affair, and a relationship of ten years, during which Gilot gave birth to Picasso's...

"For readers of Paula McLain, Nancy Horan, and Melanie Benjamin, this captivating novel is inspired by a little-known interlude in the artist's life. The French Riviera, spring 1936: It's off-season in the lovely seaside village of Juan-les-Pins, where seventeen-year-old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family-owned Cafe Paradis. A mysterious new patron who's slipped out of Paris and is traveling under a different name has made...

"A groundbreaking new study of Pablo Picasso that reveals how the artist fought to overcome the stigma he faced as a foreigner in France"--

Pigasso, a talented pig, and Mootisse, an artistic bull, live across the road from one another, but when conflicts arise they build fences that ultimately become modern art masterpieces. Includes biographies of the real-life artists, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.

As he magnificently combines meticulous scholarship with irresistible narrative appeal, Richardson draws on his close friendship with Picasso, his own diaries, the collaboration of Picasso's widow Jacqueline, and unprecedented access to Picasso's studio and papers to arrive at a profound understanding of the artist and his work. 800 photos. - Publisher.

An introduction to the life and accomplishments of the twentieth-century Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso, and describes his youth, artistic phases and periods, and more.

"The untold story of the exhibition that made America the center of the art world-and Picasso the most famous artist alive-in the shadow of World War II"--

How is one to write about a man who is himself a legend? Pablo Picasso--no artist's name is more famous today, no artist's work more widely known. To do him full justice would require volumes; on the other hand, a mere sketch reduces an Olympian to a stick figure. This book is neither a compendious study, nor a brief survey/ With its text, picture commentaries, and lavish illustrations in color and in black-and-white, the reader will find his way...

Mentor. Lover. Philanderer.Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins delivers a stunningly brilliantportrait of an obsessed artist. He lives life on a scale that consumesand destroys the women drawn to him--until he meets the one woman whoproves his equal.Based on the book Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by AriannaStassinopoulos.

Kiki Button works as a gossip columnist, partying with the rich and famous, creating new woman from the ashes of her war-worn self. While modeling for Picasso, he gives her a job: find his wife's portrait, which has gone missing. That same night, her spymaster from the war contacts her: she has to find a double agent or face jail. Through parties, whisky, and seductive informants, Kiki uses her knowledge of Paris from the Great War to connect the...