Biography of Art. The Man Who Became Picasso

The fourth book in the series «Biography of Art» is dedicated to one of the most popular artists of the 20th century — Pablo Picasso. He was one for whom to write meant to see and who, better than anyone, «lived» his century. Devoted body and soul to creativity. Frenzied and unpredictable. Categorically and secretively. A public figure whose chaotic life fascinated the crowd. A creator who left behind a legacy of twenty thousand works. Marie-Lor Berndac, curator of the Picasso Museum and head of the contemporary art section at the Louvre, along with Pauldhu Boucher, author of several documentary studies, traced the fate of a man who left a fiery imprint on his century and changed modern art.
From the first doves drawn in pencil in Malaga to the «Ladies of Avignon», proclaiming the birth of Cubism, from classical works to Surrealist paintings, from crying women to the woman-flower, from ceramics and sculpture to collages and lithographs — the book showcases the brightness, boldness, and diversity of Pablo Picasso's creativity.