Picasso: His Life and Work - Paperback

This updated version of the celebrated biography contains a final chapter depicting the hurried creativity of Picasso's last years. A surrealist artist and organizer of a number of major exhibitions, Roland Penrose was a close friend of Picasso from 1935 until the latter's death in 1973.

Front Jacket

Intimate, yet objective; comprehensive, yet enthralling; this biography of the greatest artists of our century will rank with Vasari in the annals of European painting.--Sir Herbert Read "Authoritative and a good read."
--Daily Mail

Back Jacket

This updated version of the celebrated biography contains a new final chapter depicting the hurried creativity of Picasso's last years. A surrealist artist and an organizer of a number of major exhibitions, this author was a close friend of Picasso from 1935 until the latter's death in 1973.