Picasso the Foreigner: An Artist in France, 1900-1973

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

“Absorbing [and] astute . . . Cohen-Solal captures a facet of Picasso’s character long overlooked.” —Hamilton Cain, The Wall Street Journal

“A beguiling read, as ingenious as it is ambitious . . . See Picasso and Paris shimmering with new light.” —Mark Braude, author of Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris

Born from her probing inquiry into Picasso’s odyssey in France, which inspired a museum exhibition of the same name, historian Ann...