by Jon Lackman | 4 October 2007 | Books, Modern
In September 2007 Burlington Magazine, James Beechey reviews Elizabeth Cowling’s Visiting Picasso: The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose:
… this is a wholly engrossing book … Penrose’s private notes … reveal him at his sharpest and most sensitive: his insights into individual works are generally acute … As a tale of courtly love, as Cowling nimbly characterises it, Visiting Picasso is delightful. As a psychological case study, it is mesmerising. And the rich vein of data it contains makes it a goldmine for future historians … Cowling has weighted her material impeccably and paced her narrative with great skill … The story it tells is testament to Penrose’s shrewdness and his tenacity; that it is so compulsively readable is Cowling’s triumph.
