| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-306) and index. |
| Contents |
Army and Navy Child -- Douglas Cooper -- First Night -- Grand Tour -- Back on the Road -- The Revelation of Castille -- Miscreants, Pets, and Neighbors -- A Trip with Picasso -- The Visitors' Book -- Graham Sutherland and the Tate Affair -- God Save the Queen -- Painters and Paintings -- Picasso and Dora -- Collectors -- Picasso and Jacqueline -- The Sorcerer's Apprentice -- The Beginning of the End -- The End. |
| 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. |
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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 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."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Richardson, John, 1924-2019
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Art historians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Gay men -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Cooper, Douglas, 1911-1984.
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Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973.
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Art, French -- France -- Provence -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
0375400338 |
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9780375400339 |
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