Product Description
by Roland Penrose (Author)
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.
Author Biography
Sir Roland Algernon Penrose (1900 - 1984) was an English artist, historian and poet. He was a major promoter and collector of modern art and an associate of the Surrealists in the United Kingdom.
