title: Picasso: The Real Family Story
author:  Olivier Widmaier Picasso 
description: Olivier Widmaier-Picasso, a grandson of the famous artist, offers a measured blend of research and interpretation and works to counter certain darker, scandal-driven portrayals of his grandfather, including two books by his cousin, Marina Picasso. Olivier's Picasso is a generous humanist and a "multicolored alternative to a world of gray certitudes." Because his mother, Maya, was born to Picasso and longtime lover Marie-Therese Walter, Olivier, a lawyer and media producer, spends much time detailing the evolution of French laws of paternity and inheritance, the seven-year proceedings to settle the artist's $840 million estate, and the efforts since to promote and protect the Picasso brand. His thematic structure-- chapters on women, politics, family, money--leads to inevitable backtracking but allows him to focus at length on the private entanglements of a most public man. The Bohemian poverty, the uneasy days in Vichy France, the communism, the worldwide fame: it's all told with a sense of family pride. <i>Steve Paul</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
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  Dark Picasso
  
  
  Nicole Tang Noonan Mystery #3
  
  
  
  
  
  By Rick Homan
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  First published 2019
  
  
  Copyright 2019 by Rick Homan
  
  
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either
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  Acknowledgements
  
  
  
  
  
  I am grateful to my Sisters in Crime (and brothers); my fellow writers and the
  librarians at the Mechanics’ Institute Library in San Franc