Filming Picasso

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973), "Filming Picasso" brings together the memories of Luis Revenga about Picasso, a singular documentary produced between 1980 and 1981, celebrating the centenary of the painter's birth, for which the The director interviewed family and close friends of the most famous artist of the 20th century and featured musicians such as Paco de Lucía, Camarón and Pata Negra. In the pages of "Filming Picasso" Luis Revenga rescues the almost improbable anecdotes that surrounded the filming of that unique document: from the conditions that the family imposed on him, to the personal quarrels that Picasso's heirs maintained, or the intricacies of financing of the documentary, which was considered a "State affair", and in which the highest spheres of politics and culture of the moment were involved. In addition, thanks to the evocation of the intimate conversations, full of confidences, that he had with Salvador Dalí, Michel Leiris, Dora Maar, Henry Moore, Camilo José Cela, Jacqueline Picasso, Antoni Tàpies, Rafael Alberti or José Bergamín, among many others, This book offers an unprejudiced look at the person, Pablo, who was behind one of the great geniuses of 20th century art.