A New York Times Book Review Editors'' Choice
-Absorbing [and] astute . . . Cohen-Solal captures a facet of Picasso-s character long overlooked.- -Hamilton Cain, The Wall Street Journal
-A beguiling read, as ingenious as it is ambitious . . . See Picasso and Paris shimmering with new light.- -Mark Braude, author of Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
Born from her probing inquiry into Picasso-s odyssey in France, which inspired a museum exhibition of the same name, historian Annie-Cohen Solal-s Picasso the Foreigner presents a bold new understanding of the artist-s career and his relationship with the country he called home.
Winner of the 2021 Prix Femina Essai
Before Picasso became Picasso-the iconic artist now celebrated as one of France-s leading figures-he was constantly surveilled by the French police. Amid political tensions in the spring of 1901, he was fla
