A Life of Picasso Volume IV - John Richardson

The Minotaur Years opens in 1933 with a visit by the Hungarian-French photographer Brassaï to Picassos château in Normandy, Boisgeloup, where he would take his iconic photographs of the celebrated plaster busts of Picassos lover Marie-Thérèse Walter. Picasso was contributing to André Bretons Minotaur magazine and spending time with the likes of Man Ray, Salvador Dalí, Lee Miller, and the poet Paul Éluard, in Paris and the south of France. It was during this time that Picasso began writing surrealist poetry and became obsessed with the image of himself as the mythic Minotaur. Richardson shows us the artist being as prolific as ever, painting Walter, as well as the surrealist photographer Dora Maar, who became a muse, collaborator and lover. The bombing of Guernica in April 1937 would inspire Picassos vast masterwork of the same name, which he painted in just a few weeks for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris Worlds Fair. When the Nazis occupied Paris in 1940, Picasso chose to remain in the city despite the threat that his art would be confiscated. In 1943, Picasso met Françoise Gilot who would replace Maar and inspire a brilliant new sequence of paintings. As always, Richardson tells Picassos story through his work, analysing how it shows what the artist was feeling and thinking. His fascinating and illuminating narrative immerses us in one of the most exciting moments in twentieth-century cultural history, and brings to a close the definitive and critically acclaimed biography of one of the worlds most celebrated artists.

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