"Picasso: Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man" was written by Norman Mailer and published by the Atlantic Monthly Press in 1995.

This is a hardcover, first edition, first printing of this exceptional and definitive 400-page biography of the artist, replete with more than 300 black-and-white and color photographs and illustrations.

The book has been dedicated and signed by Mailer on the title page (see seventh photo).

The original price, as shown on the dustjacket front flap, was $35.00.

From the reviews:

“Although Mailer relies heavily on previous Picasso biographies and memoirs, from which he quotes extensively, this inspired, lavishly illustrated biography offers an uncanny psychological portrait of Picasso's inner development as man and artist.

“Commenting on 250 black-and-white and 55 color reproductions woven throughout the text, the prolific author presents Picasso as a painter who was wholly derivative until his Blue Period, and who then harnessed his inner terrors, his dread of mental and physical destruction, as a stimulus to his work.

“Mailer considers Cubism, and Picasso's related discoveries between 1907 and 1917, as his creative peak, from which he would beat a retreat by the late 1920s.

“This elegantly written portrait, which makes Picasso's erotic drawings and paintings an integral part of the story, mixes shrewd insights, wild psychosexual speculations, anecdotes and telling incidents. The narrative, which closes on the eve of WWI, pays special attention to Picasso's relationships with his mistress, Fernande Olivier (whose untranslated memoirs, written in her 70s, Mailer excerpts in chunks); and with Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire and Picasso's sexually impotent friend, aesthete Carlos Casagemas, who committed suicide in 1901, dejected over unrequited love for a model.”—Publishers Weekly

The book is in fine collectible condition, with no torn or bent pages, no scratches, stains or inscriptions, no remainder marks, no price-clipping, no bookplate, no ex-library, no book club edition, no flaws of any sort. It is as new.

The dustjacket is in equally fine shape and is protected in a clear and removable archival cover. 

Please see the photos for a fuller description and author profile.

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