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Visiting Picasso : the notebooks and letters of Roland Penrose / Elizabeth Cowling
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Visiting Picasso : the notebooks and letters of Roland Penrose / Elizabeth Cowling

by Elizabeth Cowling, Roland Penrose

Based on private notebooks and correspondence, this volume provides a firsthand account of Pablo Picasso's life and artistic practice. The text features candid anecdotes and sixty photographs documenting the artist's studio, social circle, and creative process.

Accession 16854 ISBN 9780500512937 Publisher Thames & Hudson
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