The beautifully illustrated fourth volume of Picasso's lifeset in France and Spain during the Spanish Civil War and World War IIcovers friendships with the surrealist painters, artistic inspiration around Guernica and the Minotaur, and his muses Marie-Therese, Dora Maar, and Francoise Gilot, and much more. Including 271 stunning illustrations and drawing on original and exhaustive research from interviews and never-before-seen material in the Picasso family archives, this book opens with a visit by the Hungarian-French photographer Brassai to Picasso's chateau in Normandy, Boisgeloup, where he would take his iconic photographs of the celebrated plaster busts of Marie-Therese, Picasso's mistress and muse. Picasso was contributing to Andre Breton's Minotaur magazine and he was also spending more time with the likes of Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Lee Miller, and the poet Paul eluard, in Paris as well as in the south of France. It was during this time that Picasso began writing surrealist poetry and became obsessed with the image of himself as the mythic Minotaurhead of a bull, body of a manand created his most famous etching, Minotauromachie.