Picassos Last Stand

Biographer Sir John Richardson and Picassos granddaughter Diana Widmaier Picasso are the star witnesses in a documentary that reassesses the artists output in the years before his death in 1973 The story is of a creative spirit finding new impetus in response to both deaths approach and the censure of contemporaries and critics Those who were members of Picassos private inner circle gossip about his lifestyle also helped to fire him back up put the later work forward as some of his frankest wittiest and most profound