HIDDEN PORTRAITS

Insightful and original Lisa Hilton Roe has a deep knowledge of the period and the milieu Sue Prideaux Long overdue Roe brings Picasso s lovers and muses from the shadows into the limelight Herald A compelling tale Brilliantly insightful and well written Times Fernande Olivier Olga Khokhlova Marie Therese Walter Dora Maar Francoise Gilot and Jacqueline Roque These six extraordinary women shared Pablo Picasso s life and were instrumental in his career yet they have long been dismissed as simply passive models or muses Hidden Portraits reveals that their lives were without exception remarkable All six were unconventional independent and talented All six were tested both by Picasso s subterfuges and betrayals and the wider social turbulence they lived through The extent to which each influenced Picasso s art in major new directions has never been fully acknowledged Sue Roe delves deeply into the truth of the women s experiences for the first time to tell the story of Picasso s women from their point of view Her enthralling book spans seventy years from Bohemian early twentieth century Montmartre to the glittering Riviera in the 1920s through Paris under Nazi occupation and beyond Picasso s final years of seclusio