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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> His lively and incisive analysis of the work meshes seamlessly with the rich and detailed narrative of this complex and sensual life. The Triumphant Years reveals Picasso at the height of his powers producing not only the costumes and sets for such Diaghilev Ballets Russes productions as Parade and Tricorne but some of his most important sculpture and paintings. These are tumultuous years Picasso torn between marital respectability with Olga the Russian ballerina who was his first wife and the erotic passion of his mistress Marie-Th?r?se. Rome and Naples would inspire the classicism in Picasso’s work of the early twenties and Richardson reveals how the mercurial witty Cocteau introduced him to the aristocratic and artistic world of Paris including the Noailles art patrons who backed the surrealist films of Bu?uel and Dali. Picasso was amused by Tristan Tzara and the Dadaists but resisted the advances of Andr? Breton and the Surrealists. However at the end of Richardson’s vast chronicle Picasso is briefly transformed into a Surrealist with the publication in 1933 of the first issue of Minotaure devoted largely to his work.