Visiting Picasso : The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose

Penrose, Roland

ISBN 10: 0500512930 / ISBN 13: 9780500512937

Published by Thames & Hudson, New York, 2006

About this Item

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visiting Picasso : The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500512930
• ISBN 13: 9780500512937
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • Book

About this title

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Containing previously unpublished, uncensored and on-the-spot observations of Picasso at home and in company, "Visiting Picasso" is a wonderfully vivid, spontaneous and lively record of Roland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.

About the Author

Elizabeth Cowling is currently Reader in History of Art at Edinburgh University. Her book Picasso: Style and Meaning won the 2003 British Academy Book Award.