A richly illustrated first volume in a multi-volume portrait of the seminal artist focuses on Picasso's early life in Málaga and Barcelona, his 1904 move to France, his Rose and Blue periods, and his work on <IT>Les Demoiselles d'Avignon<RO>, the painting that would usher in the modernist period. Winner of the Whitbread Prize. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.