Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World

The book by the American art critic Miles Junger is the story of how an unknown young artist from Barcelona named Pablo Ruiz became "Picasso himself", the most influential artist of the 20th century. His first steps in Paris were marked by a desperate struggle, often with despair and despondency, but Picasso later recalled them as the happiest of his life. This is the story of an artistic genius with a unique creative gift, full of disappointments and triumphs, despair, love and delusions in the atmosphere of bohemian Montmartre - the heart of the Parisian avant-garde, debauchery, anarchism, and crime. It was there under dramatic circumstances that one of the great masterpieces was born that fundamentally changed the ways of modern art.

A biographical story about how an eighteen-year-old Spaniard named Pablo Picasso, an aspiring artist from Barcelona, ​​came to Paris and became the most influential artist of the twentieth century. But before that, there were years of poverty and unhappiness in the capital of the international artistic world. However, over time, Picasso became the leader of a bohemian group of artists, sculptors, and poets. The book also tells about how cubism was born from under the artist's brush.
This is the story of the life of an artistic genius with a unique creative gift, full of sadness and triumphs, despair and absurdity - and all this against the background of Paris in the first third of the 20th century.