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Book SynopsisA 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 Picassothe iconic artist now celebrated as one of France's leading figureshe was constantly surveilled by the French police. Amid political tensions in the spring of 1901, he was flagged as
