Hitler vs Picasso

In 1943, a young painter, Françoise Gilot (1921- ) meets Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), already the most celebrated artist in the world. For the next ten years, she is his mistress, bears him two children, is his muse, and paints within his element. She also learns slowly about the other women who have been or still are in his life: Dora Maar, Marie- Thérèse (whose daughter is Picasso's), and Olga Koklowa, each of whom seems deeply scarred by their life with Picasso. Gilot's response is to bring each into her relationship with Picasso. How does one survive Picasso? She keeps painting, and she keeps her good humor and her independence. When the time comes, she has the strength to leave.

Following five releases with her sisters on ABC/Blue Thumb Records (including a Grammy® win in 1975 for the Bonnie and Anita Pointer penned “Fairytale”), Bonnie Pointer left the group she co-founded and began a solo career. She signed with Motown Records in 1978, and her eponymous debut featured the hit “Heaven Must Have Sent You,” which reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100. The next year brought another self-titled released, and a third album came five years later. Bonnie appeared on Soul Train in 1985, but it would be decades before she would release more music.

John Richardson's riveting memoir about growing up in England and, at twenty-five, beginning his twelve-year adventure with the controversial art collector Douglas Cooper.

Pourquoi le 18 juin 1901 Picasso est-il « signalé comme anarchiste » à la Préfecture de police, quinze jours avant sa première exposition parisienne ? Pourquoi le 1er décembre 1914 près de sept cents peintures, dessins et autres œuvres de sa période cubiste sont-ils séquestrés par le gouvernement français pour une période qui dure près de dix ans ? D’où vient l’absence presque totale de ses tableaux dans les collections publiques du pays jusqu’en 1947 ? Comment expliquer, enfin, que Picasso ne soit jamais devenu citoyen français ?…