Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World

One of The Christian Science Monitor ’s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year “An engrossing read…a historically and psychologically rich account of the young Picasso and his coteries in Barcelona and Paris” ( The Washington Post ) and how he achieved his breakthrough and revolutionized modern art through his masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. In 1900, eighteen-year-old Pablo Picasso journeyed from Barcelona to Paris, the glittering capital of the art world. For the next several years he endure