Richardson

2001 · 172940 — New York: Abrams 2001. Paperback. VG. White wraps with black illustration and red lettering. 296 pp. BW illustrations. Translated from French by Christine Baker and Michael Raeburn. "Fernande Olivier the first real love in the life of Pablo Picasso left a vivid account of the years she spent with the great artist 1905-1912 which happened to coincide with the period of Picasso's most revolutionary work. Although the value and interest of her recollections from this period has been increasingly recognized by scholars most of her writing has not been available in English until now." "Besides the journal Loving Picasso also includes writing from Olivier's memoir first published in French in the 1930's and from her letters to Gertrude Stein Alice B. Toklas and Guillaume Apollinaire. Edited by Picasso scholar Marilyn McCully who also provides a foreword the book is illustrated by archival photographs of Olivier Picasso and their friends - Gertrude Stein Max Jacob Kees van Dongen and others - as well as reproductions of her own drawings and paintings; works for which Olivier modeled before she met Picasso; and some of the superb portraits of her by Picasso himself."--Jacket. Abrams paperback books