Hidden Portraits [electronic resource] : The untold stories of six women who loved Picasso
Sue Roe2025
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Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Therese Walter, Dora Maar, Francoise
Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque. These six extraordinary women shared Pablo
Picasso's life and were instrumental in his career, yet they have long been
dismissed as simply passive models or muses. Hidden Portraits reveals that their
lives were - without exception - remarkable. All six were unconventional,
independent and talented. All six were tested, both by Picasso's subterfuges and
betrayals, and the wider social turbulence they lived through. The extent to
which each influenced Picasso's art in major new directions has never been fully
acknowledged. Sue Roe delves deeply into the truth of the women's experiences
for the first time, to tell the story of Picasso's women from their point of
view. Her enthralling book spans seventy years, from Bohemian early twentieth
century Montmartre to the glittering Riviera in the 1920s, through Paris under
Nazi occupation and beyond Picasso's final years of seclu...
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Author:
Sue Roe, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Faber & Faber, 2025
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1 online resource (1 text file) (304 pages, 3027320.0 Bytes)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780571386000
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English
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529683
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