Pablo Picasso

'Picasso and Modern British Art' explores an overlooked yet important aspect of Pablo Picasso's life and work: his lifelong connection with the United Kingdom. Tracing his rise in Britain, this book demonstrates that the British engagement with Picasso and his art has been much deeper and more varied than was previously understood. "Accompanying a major touring exhibition, Picasso and Modern British Art is the first book to explore Pablo Picasso's...

"Much has been said and written about Picasso's life and art, but until now his self-portraits have never been studied and presented in a single book, perhaps because the artist always left many doubts about his work. However, there is no doubt that Picasso represented himself ceaselessly, whether in a dashed-off pencil sketch, as a flourish at the bottom of a letter, or on a giant canvas. At the suggestion of Picasso's widow Jacqueline, the distinguished...

Director Orson Welles examines the nature of truth and falsehood in this look at European art forger Elmyr de Hory and writer Clifford Irving, who wrote a biography of Howard Hughes based on a phony diary he fabricated himself.