List of illustrations -- List of plates -- Foreword. 1 origins and youth (1881-95) : Malaga -- Ancestry -- Don José marries -- An earthquake -- Local painters and painting -- Bullfights -- Departure for Corunna -- Summer in Malaga. 2 Barcelona (1895-1901) : Catalonia and Spain -- The intellectuals revolt -- Arrival in Barcelona -- Science and Charity -- Independence and new influences -- Excursions along the coast -- Visit to Malaga -- Madrid -- Horta de San Juan: summer 1898 -- Return to Barcelona -- Els quatre gats -- Sketchbooks -- First illustrations -- Gaudi -- Departure -- Paris -- New year in Malaga -- Madrid: Marte Joven -- Barcelona: exhibitions at the Sala Parés. 3 The Blue Period (1901-04) : Return to Paris -- Exhibition with Vollard: June 1901 -- Work of the Cabaret Period -- Max Jacob -- Decoration of Le Zut -- Departure for Barcelona -- The Blue Period -- Barcelona: January 1902 -- Paris -- Barcelona: January 1903-April 1904: blindness and vision. 4 Au Rendez-vous de Poètes (1904-06) : The Bateau Lavoir: the final move to Paris -- Fernande Olivier -- La Bande Picasso -- The first patrons -- The studio: late Blue Period -- Au Rendez-vous des Poètes -- The Rose Period -- Harlequin -- Circus and saltimbanques -- Life in Montmartre -- A visit to Holland, and sculpture -- First Classical Period -- The Portrait of Gertrude Stein -- Gosol. 5 Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1906-09) : New tendencies and Matisse -- Recognition -- Conflicting styles -- Les Demoiselles d'Avignon -- Negro Period -- Literary friends -- The Douanier Rousseau -- A duel -- The beginning of Cubism -- La Rue des Bois -- Hora de San Juan: summer 1909 -- Return to Paris. 6 The creation of Cubism (1909-14) : Move to Boulevard de Clichy -- The Cubist portraits: analytical Cubism -- Summer in Cadaqués -- The heroic days of Cubism -- The subject matter in Cubism -- Céret -- First reactions to Cubism -- L'Affaire des Statues -- Changes at home -- The beginning of collage -- Papiers collés and the return of colour -- The widening influence of Cubism -- Synthetic Cubism -- Cubist constructions -- The Woman in a Chemise -- Avignon. 7 First World War: Paris and Rome (1914-18) : Cubism at the outbreak of war -- Paris goes to war -- Max Jacob and the death of Eva -- The Crystal Period -- "Back to Ingres" -- Life during the war -- The Russian Ballet -- A visit to Barcelona -- marriage and the move into Paris -- Guillaume Apollinaire -- The Armistice -- Biarritz. 8 "Beauty must be convulsive" (1918-30) : The ballet in London -- Pulcinella and Cuadro Flamenco -- Mercure -- Portraits and drawings -- Le Midi -- Monumental nudes -- Three Musicians -- Fontainebleau: mother and child -- Exhibitions -- The Dinard still-lifes -- Varied styles -- The great still-lifes -- Surrealism -- "Beauty must be convulsive" -- Social contacts -- Renewed violence -- The anatomy of dreams -- A crucifixion -- Sculpture. 9 Boisgeloup: sculpture and the minotaur (1930-36) : Le Chef d'oeuvre inconnu and Ovid's Métamorphoses -- Boisgeloup: new activities -- Still-lifes -- Anatomy reshaped -- Moonlike heads: a new model -- Widespread recognition -- The Sculptor's Studio -- The horned God -- Picasso the poet -- The return of Jaime Sabartés -- Paul Eluard -- Picasso acclaimed in Spain and Paris -- Civil war in Spain -- August at Mougins. 10 Guernica (1936-39) : Le Tremblay -- Dream and Lie of Franco -- A mural for the Spanish Pavilion -- Premonitions -- Picasso furioso -- Universality of meaning -- the public and Picasso -- Return to Mougins -- The autumn in Paris -- Paul Eluard and the Spanish War -- Visit to Paul Klee -- Mougins: 1938 -- Guernica travels -- Illness and recovery. 11 Second World War: Royan and Paris (1939-45) : Royan -- The German Occupation -- Return to Paris -- Picasso as playwright -- Portraits of D.M. -- Still-life and figure paintings -- Sculpture -- Death of Max Jacob -- Landscapes of Paris and a still-life -- Liberation -- Picasso: the communist -- Exhibit ions -- The Charmel House. 12 Antibes and Vallauris (1945-54) : Return to the Mediterranean -- A new medium and a new model -- Picasso and the museums -- Ceramics at Vallauris -- Picasso and the cause of peace -- Family life -- The Man with the Sheep and the Vallauris Chapel -- War and Peace -- The Temple of Peace -- Paris: books and Paul Eluard -- Sculpture and painting at Vallauris -- More paintings and new versions of old masterpieces -- The death of friends -- Separation -- A season in hell. 13 "La californie" (1954-58) : Tauromachia -- Les Femmes d'Alger -- Exhibitions -- Cannes -- Films -- Politics -- Visitors and friends -- Paterfamilias -- Picasso entertains -- The Unesco mural and another project -- Las Meninas -- Some paintings of 1958. 14 Vauvenargues: departure from Cannes: Spanish friends (1959-61 and after) : Le Mont Sainte Victoire -- A monument for Apollinaire -- Figures and a fountain -- More exhibitions -- A new Spanish Period -- A secret rendez-vous and public celebrations. 15 Le mas Notre Dame de Vie (1961-70) : A new refuge -- Sculpture: intimate and monumental -- The Chicago Picasso -- Painting: the artist and his model and The Sabines -- Drawings -- Lino-cuts -- Engravings and eroticism -- unwelcome ordeals -- Homage to Picasso. 16 Last years (1970-73) : El Entierro del Conde de Orgaz -- Le Palais des Papes -- The great collage of 1937 becomes a tapestry -- The Museu Picasso -- A new language -- Conclusion. Postscript -- Appendix -- Acknowledgements -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
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