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Drawing on original and exhaustive research from interviews and never-before-seen material in the Picasso family archives, this book opens with a visit by the Hungarian-French photographer Brassa to Picasso's chateau in Normandy, Boisgeloup, where he would take his iconic photographs of the celebrated plaster busts of Marie-Thrse, Picasso's mistress and muse. Picasso was contributing to Andr Breton's Minotaur magazine and he was also spending more time with the likes of Man Ray, Salvador Dal, Lee Miller, and the poet Paul luard, in Paris as well as in the south of France. It was during this time that Picasso began writing surrealist poetry and became obsessed with the image of himself as the mythic Minotaur - head of a bull, body of a man - and created his most famous etching, Minotauromachie.
