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Picasso's war : how modern art came to America / Hugh Eakin.

by Eakin, Hugh, author.

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New York : Crown, [2022]

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Appreciation -- United States.

Picasso : Forty Years of His Art (Exhibition) (1939-1940 : Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y.)

9780451498489 (hardcover) :

0451498488 (hardcover)

x, 468 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Not in America -- The half-life of a painting -- Paris, East -- French lessons -- A glimpse of the lady -- Cubism in Congress -- The chess player and the showman -- End of an idyll -- The grand illusion -- Cubists at war -- A new beginning -- Do I know this man? -- In Picasso's garden -- Ku Klux criticism -- Dangerous liaisons -- Dinner at Quinn's -- The last battle -- The man vanishes -- The very modern Mr. Barr -- "Had he lived another decade ..." -- A museum of his own -- The Paris project -- "When a Picasso wins all the races..." -- The balance of power -- Defeat -- "Make art ... German again" -- Connecticut chic -- "Risking my life for my work" -- The year without painting -- Spanish fury -- "Such a painting could never again be had" -- The last of Paris -- "More important than war" -- Escape.

"The untold story of the exhibition that made America the center of the art world -- and Picasso the most famous artist alive -- in the shadow of World War II"--Provided by publisher.

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