Picasso - 3rd Edition by Roland Penrose (Paperback)

About the Book

"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

Book Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

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.

Review Quotes

"A major contribution to the understanding of twentieth-century art . . . illuminating to a rare degree."-- "Manchester Guardian"

"A work of absorbing interest."-- "Observer"

"An immensely likable book, and one which makes its hero immensely likeable."-- "Times Literary Supplement"

"Densely factual, yet coherent and vital . . . it abounds in significant anecdotes, in intimate revelations . . . full and fascinating, intimate and authoritative." -- "Listener"

"One of the most satisfactory full biographies of recent years."-- "Time and Tide"

About the Author

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.