Volume 48, Number 6 · April 12, 2001
Comrade Picasso
By John Russell
Picasso: The Communist Years
Gertje R. Utley
Yale University Press, 268 pp., $55.00
On October 4, 1944, Pablo Picasso walked into the offices of the newspaper L'Humanité in Paris and signed up as a card-carrying member of the French Communist Party. He did it without any of his customary panache. And when he was congratulated by Marcel Cachin, the veteran editor of L'Humanité, and by Jacques Duclos, the Communist Party's secretary, he sat down in his overcoat and kept a firm hold on his hat.
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