I have, in my mind a fairly good idea of what I wish to say and I won't yet elaborate; suffice to say that when I was young I read a biography of Picassso by Pierre Daix (1965) and found it extremely sycophantic. It tainted my mind rather irrationally against Picasso, I suppose, but a book read a bit later, by John Berger -The Success and Failure of Picasso' (1965)- acted as a restorative. Pierre Daix is of course a very good friend of the artist and thus perhaps not best qualified to be objective. It took me a while to start to look properly at Picasso to try to dissociate the artist from such material. I wasnt very objective then.
.........Or maybe I know a bit more now.
Was rather washed out last night and because of the busyness of the day your favourite feature did not appear. Today, however
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