Marina Picasso

Las sobrecogedoras memorias de la nieta del gran mito de la pintura del siglo XX.Marina Picasso aporta en este libro su visión personal de la dramatica historia de una familia que vivió a la sombra del gran Pablo Picasso,que reinaba impecablemente sobre las vidas de sus mujeres,hijos y nietos.Un libro que asombra por su valiente desmitificacion del artista,al cual perfila en sus facetas puramente humanas.Y el retrato que surge es el de un ser egoista,mezquino y megalomano,un hombre que solo se quiso a si mismo y que se valio de todas las personas que le rodeaban para conseguir sus propios objetivos...Un libro tan polemico como revelador.

La nieta del genial pintor realiza una descarnada biografía del hombre que reinó sobre su familia como un ser ególatra y despótico. Una sorprendente reflexión sobre el lado desdichado de un genio, y sobre la complicada relacion entre vida y arte.

This family memoir of life in the shadow of "The Sun" - the twentieth century''s greatest painter, who towered over the lives of his wives, children and grandchildren - is told by the grandaughter of Pablo Picasso and his first wife, Olga Khoklova.

Marina Picasso remembers being six years old and standing awkwardly in front of the gates of Picassos grand house near Cannes. She was there with her father and eight-year-old brother to collect from her grandfather the weekly allowance that Picasso grudgingly gave his eldest son to support is family. Sometimes they were sent away and on other occasions, the gates would be opened and they would walk into the intimidating, exciting chaos of Picassos studio to face the man himself and his unpredictable moods. Looking back, Marina can understand why Picasso had so little interest in his grandchildren; but at the time, she and her brother longed for him to love and understand them. Just a few miles away down the Cote dAzur, they led a hand-to-mouth existence. Her father was a weak man, reliant on his father for everything and her mother lived in her own fantasy world; the family were therefore utterly dependent on Picasso. People assumed they were rich and privileged because they were Picassos and they were to live their lives under the burden of these assumptions. It was this that caused Marinas brother to commit suicide and when her father died Marina found herself in the ironic position of being one of the major heirs to Picassos estate.