The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper

This book is a sharply etched portrait of Douglas Cooper, the colorful Evelyn Waugh-like figure who single-handedly assembled the world's most important private cubist collection. It is also the story of Cooper and Richardson's association, which began in 1949 and came to fruition -- and ultimately disaster -- at the Chateau de Castille, the eighteenth-century colonnaded folly in Provence that they restored and filled with masterpieces by Picasso, Braque, Leger, and Juan Gris.

Softcover. English. Pimlico. 2001. ISBN: 9780712667081. 320 pp. Fair/good. Book No: 53936