The Woman Who Always Loved Picasso

by Jeff Fisher, Julia Blackburn

Overview

Marie-Thérèse Walter was seventeen when she met Picasso. He was forty-six. These poems - as simple and direct as quick sketches - use her voice to tell the story of the relationship with Picasso and what it meant to her from its first beginnings, until the day on which she took her own life, three years after his death. The poems illuminate his love for a woman who was, as John Berger says, 'the sexually most important affair of his life'; they also, perhaps, make sense of Marie-Thérèse's love for him. Jeff Fisher's drawings animate the vivid voice of Marie-Thérèse, created with great immediacy by Julia Blackburn.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784109196
Publisher:	Carcanet Press, Limited
Publication date:	12/21/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	64
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Julia Blackburn is the daughter of the poet Thomas Blackburn and the painter Rosalie de Meric. She has written two novels (both shortlisted for the Orange Prize), a memoir The Three of Us (winner of the JR Ackerley Award), a collection of poems, Murmurations of Love, Grief and Starlings (Full Circle, 2015) and nine works of non-fiction of which the most recent, Time Song, was published by Cape in 2019. She lives in Suffolk and in Italy.
Jeff Fisher hails from Melbourne Australia where he studied Fine Art - Film and Animation at Preston Institute of Technology in the 70s. He flirted with London for a while before settling down in France in 1993. The bulk of Jeff's work has been book cover design as well as working in design and exhibiting regularly in Paris and London.