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The sorcerer's apprentice : Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper / John Richardson.
LIBRA N7483.R52 A3 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richardson, John, 1924-2019.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Richardson, John, 1924-2019.
- Richardson, John.
- Art historians--United States--Biography.
- Art historians.
- Cooper, Douglas, 1911-1984.
- Cooper, Douglas.
- Art, French--20th century--France--Provence.
- Art, French.
- France--Provence.
- Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973.
- Picasso, Pablo.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1999.
- Summary:
- This book is a sharply etched portrait of Douglas Cooper, the colorful Evelyn Waugh-like figure who single-handedly assembled the world's most important private cubist collection. It is also the story of Cooper and Richardson's association, which began in 1949 and came to fruition--and ultimately disaster--at the Chateau de Castille, the eighteenth-century colonnaded folly in Provence that they restored and filled with masterpieces by Picasso, Braque, Leger, and Juan Gris. Besides these artists and the women in their lives, Jean Cocteau, W. H. Auden, Cyril Connolly, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Helena Rubenstein, Peggy Guggenheim, and Anthony Blunt are just some of the figures who, through Richardson's insightful prose, leap off the page to appear before us in an entirely new light. A major revelation of the book is its portrait of Picasso in private; Richardson's friendship with the artist coincided with a period of dramatic change in the artist's life. Not since Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas has anyone given so intimate a picture of leading modern artists and their circle at work and play, or with such insight and understanding.
- Contents:
- Army and Navy Child 3
- Douglas Cooper 19
- First Night 43
- Grand Tour 55
- Back on the Road 71
- The Revelation of Castille 87
- Miscreants, Pets, and Neighbors 105
- A Trip with Picasso 125
- The Visitors' Book 139
- Graham Sutherland and the Tate Affair 157
- God Save the Queen 171
- Painters and Paintings 181
- Picasso and Dora 203
- Collectors 223
- Picasso and Jacqueline 233
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice 251
- The Beginning of the End 263
- The End 281.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-306) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0375400338
- OCLC:
- 41338039
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