Picasso died on April 12, 1973. Born in Spain in the 19th century, he is, with Georges Braque, the father of Cubism and the inventor of modern art. His life crossed the 20th century and its dramas – World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Cold War – and his work bore constant witness to the times. Settling in Paris for good in 1904, he was close to many people who left their mark on their era: Max Jacob, Apollinaire, Cocteau, Breton, Eluard, Aragon and many others. 
But his life and his work were also inhabited by intimate encounters with women: Fernande Olivier, Eva Gouel, Olga Khokhlova, whom he married, Marie Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot, Jacqueline Roque… A man of  passion, but also, in his way, of fidelity, who painted himself as a Minotaur obsessed with the mystery of women, Picasso found in each of them the source for a constant reinvention, a perpetual testing of his talents, of his pictorial  passion.

Thirty years after his death, as a museum dedicated to him is finally opening in Malaga, where he was born, Pascale Le Thorel-Daviot retraces, in this lavishly documented volume, the path of this incomparable man, letting those who knew him describe him first hand.