Irascible: The Combative Life of Douglas Cooper, Collector and Friend of Picasso Kyoto photography

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the show revealed Picasso’s secret muse in a dramatic new light in depictions that metamorphosed her athletic form in endlessly inventive ways

and hand-cut openings and “bullet holes” accentuate the realistic effects

Irascible: The Combative Life of Douglas Cooper, Collector and Friend of Picasso Kyoto photographyThis lively book by Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi recounts the adventures of self taught English art historian and critic Douglas Cooper (19111984). Cooper began collecting works by Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Lger, and Pablo Picasso in the 1930s and made his name as a scholar with his catalogue of the Courtauld Collection in 1954 and his catalogue raisonn of Griss work in 1977. He also organized exhibitions by Braque and Paul Gauguin,