![]() ![]() It describes his precocious success in Barcelona and Paris and the period of rejection and despair that followed. This, the first of a four-volume study, reveals how the adolescent Picasso struggled, through determination and study, to escape the shadow of his father's artistic failures. We can see how his courage and terror, misogyny and tenderness, generosity and thrift, superstition and skepticism, cynicism and sentiment, are reflected in the conflicts and paradoxes of his work. The artist's ambivalence is one of the author's central themes. John Richardson, in this book, makes sense of the myriad contradictions that leave so many statements about Picasso's nature equally true in reverse. ![]() Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. ![]() Some light spotting to text block edges, random scattered spotting to white cloth boards rubbed transparent dustwrapper with minor edgewear and chipping slight discolouration else very good. Quarto hardcover, 548pp., monochrome illustrations. ![]()
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