PICASSO THE SELF PORTRAITS

At the suggestion of Picassos widow Jacqueline, the distinguished art historian Pascal Bonafoux began researching Picassos self-portraits more than forty years ago. This meticulously researched book presents the fruits of his decades-long project. From the first attributed painting in 1894 as a thirteen-year-old boy, until Picasso's final self-portrait in 1972, a year before his death, Bonafoux charts the evolution of the artist's life and art. Here is Picasso as a student, as a young bohemian, an impetuous artist in Paris, as harlequ...[Read more]