Visiting Picasso: The notebooks and letters of Roland Penrose

Published here for the first time, these lively writings bring to life with a rare vividness the work, ideas, and milieu of Roland Penrose's friend-and the subject of his much-acclaimed 1958 biography-Pablo Picasso.

Containing uncensored and on-the-spot observations of Picasso at home and in company, Visiting Picasso is a wonderfully vivid, spontaneous and lively record of Roland Penrose’s many encounters with the artist and his family, friends and associates, from their first meeting in 1936 to the artist’s death in 1973. Over 70 photographs, many by Penrose’s wife Lee Miller, illustrate the colourful cast of characters, as well as artworks and events described.