Visiting Picasso : the Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose / Elizabeth Cowling

Cowling, Elizabeth

ISBN 10: 0500512930 / ISBN 13: 9780500512937

Published by New York, N. Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2006

About this Item

Containing uncensored and on-the-spot observations of Picasso at home and in company, Visiting Picasso is a wonderfully vivid, spontaneous and lively record of Roland Penroses many encounters with the artist and his family, friends and associates, from their first meeting in 1936 to the artists death in 1973. Over 70 photographs, many by Penroses wife Lee Miller, illustrate the colourful cast of characters, including Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot, Jean Cocteau and Georges Braque, as well as artworks and events described. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 408 pages; Description: 408 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-403) and index. Subjects: Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) --Friends and associates --Penrose, Roland, Sir --Diaries --Correspondence. 2 Kg. Seller Inventory # 155974

Bibliographic Details

Title: Visiting Picasso : the Notebooks and Letters...

Publisher: New York, N. Y. : Thames & Hudson

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

Containing previously unpublished, uncensored and on-the-spot observations of Picasso at home and in company, "Visiting Picasso" is a wonderfully vivid, spontaneous and lively record of Roland Penroses' many encounters with the artist and his family, friends and associates, from their first meeting in 1936 to the artists death in 1973. Over seventy photographs, many by Penroses' wife Lee Miller, illustrate the colourful cast of characters, including Dora Maar, Francoise Gilot, Jean Cocteau and Georges Braque, as well as artworks and events described.

Review:

'...a compelling narrative of the relationship between Penrose and Picasso...accessible and absorbing, full of anecdotes and titbits of information'
-- The Sunday Tribune

'Penrose makes a good Boswell' -- The Independent