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Title: PICASSO
A BIOGRAPHY
By: Patrick O'Brian
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £7.99


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ISBN 10: 0007466382
ISBN 13: 9780007466382
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Pub. date: 31 May, 2012
Pages: 512
Description: A scholarly, passionate and brilliantly-written biography of Pablo Picasso by Patrick O'Brian, the famous author of the much-loved Aubrey-Maturin series, reissued in a stunning new cover.
Synopsis: A scholarly, passionate and brilliantly-written biography of Pablo Picasso by Patrick O'Brian, the famous author of the much-loved Aubrey-Maturin series, reissued in a stunning new cover. Patrick O'Brian's outstanding biography of Picasso explores comprehensively the life of this awe-inspiring artist. Enormously productive and hugely successful, Picasso continues to attract avid, insatiable public interest. O'Brian was a close friend and a neighbour of Picasso's, and the book reflects the closeness of their friendship and the immense erudition and warm wit of Patrick O'Brian. The man that emerges from the pages is full of contradictions: hard yet tender, mean yet generous, affectionate but cold, professing communism but retaining an essentially Catholic mentality, private despite his relish of fame. Critically, O'Brian's is the only biography to fully appreciate the distinctly Mediterranean origins of Picasso's character and art. Sex and money, eating and drinking, friends and quarrels, comedies and tragedies, suicides and wars tumble over each other in the vast chaos of Picasso's experience, He was `a man almost as lonely as the sun, but one who glowed with much the same fierce, burning life.'
Publication: UK
Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Returns: Non-returnable
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