Marilyn McCully is an American art historian based in London. Her books include Picasso: A Private Collection and The Art of Spanish Posters. She is the collaborating author of John Richardson's four-volume A Life of Picasso, and is also the editor of the exhibition catalog Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906.

"The hundred or so brief documents collected here, dating back to 1900, are a kind of Richter-scale recording of Picasso's impact on this century."--The New Yorker "Sheds light not only on Picasso, but also on those others--Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, and Salvador Dali--who interpreted and influenced the master's art."--The Wilson Quarterly

• Introduction I. The early years Jaime Sabartes (1897) On Science and Charity Manuel Rodriguez Codola 1900 Els IV Gats: Ruiz Picazzo Exhibition Sebastia Trullol i Plana 1900 Picasso at Els Quatre Gats Unidentified visitor 1900 Picasso at Els Quatre Gats Charles Ponsonailhe 1900 Derniers Moments at the Paris Exposition Carles Casagemas 1900 Letter from Paris (25 October) to Ramon Reventos Pablo Picasso Carles Casagemas 1900 Letter from Paris (11 November) to Ramon Reventos Miquel Utrillo 1901 On Arte Joven Pablo Picasso 1901 Letter from Madrid to Miquel Utrillo Gustave Coquiot 1901 Review of the exhibition at Vollard's gallery, Paris Pere Coll 1901 Review of the exhibition at Vollard's gallery, Paris Pablo Picasso 1901 Letter from Paris (13 July) to Vidal Ventosa Max Jacob (1901) Meeting Picasso in Paris Pablo Picasso 1902 Letter from Barcelona (13 July) to Max Jacob Pablo Picasso 1903 Letter from Barcelona to Max Jacob El Liberal 1903 On La Vie Carlos Juner-Vidal 1904 Picasso and his work 2. Picasso moves to Paris and the development of Cubism Fernande Olivier (1904) Picasso at the 'Bateau-Lavoir' Pablo Picasso 1905 Letter from Paris (22 February) to Jacinto Reventos Guillaume Apollinaire 1905 The Young: Picasso, Painter Jaume Pasarell (1905) Picasso in Tiana Max Jacob (1905-7) Picasso, Apollinaire, Salmon and Jacob Andre Salmon (1907) On Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1907) On Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Fernande Olivier (1908) The banquet for Douanier Rousseau Gertrude Stein (1908) The banquet for Douanier Rousseau Andre Salmon (1908) Response to Gertrude Stein Georges Braque (1908-10) Response to Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (1909) Concerning Cubism Fernande Olivier 1910 Letter from Paris (17 June) to Gertrude Stein Josep Pla (1910) Manolo on Cubism Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910) On Cubism Gino Severini (1912) On Souvenirs du Havre Guillaume Apollinaire 1913 Picasso, Cubist painter 3. Picasso's critical reputation outside France Roger Fry 1910 The Post-Impressionists: Picasso Arthur Hoeber 1911 Review of Photo-Secession exhibition, New York The Craftsman 1911 Review of Photo-Secession exhibition, New York Huntly Carter 1911 The Plato-Picasso Idea John Middleton Murry 1911 The Art of Pablo Picasso The Art Chronicle 1912 Review of Stafford Gallery exhibition, London Roger Fry 1912 The Second Post-Impressionist exhibition Ramon Reventos 1912 Review of Ca'n Dalmau exhibition, Barcelona Josep Junoy 1912 Picasso's Art Max Pechstein 1912 What is Picasso up to? Max Raphael 1912 Open Letter to Herr Pechstein Ludwig Coellen 1912 Romanticism in Picasso Heinrich Thannhauser 1913 Moderne Galerie exhibition, Munich M. K. Rohe 1913 Review of Moderne Galerie exhibition, Munich Wilhelm Bode 1913 The new art of Futurists and Cubists Hans Arp L. H. Neitzel 1913 The Cubists 4. The war years Georgy Chulkov 1914 Picasso's demons Yakov Tugendhold 1914 Picassos in the Shchukin collection Nikolay Berdyaev 1914 Picasso Ivan Aksenov (1915) Picasso's painting Jean Cocteau (1917) Picasso in Rome Enrico Prampolini (1917) Picasso in Rome Axel Salto (1916) Visiting Picasso in Paris Joan Miro (1919) Visiting Picasso in Paris Guillaume Apollinaire 1917 Calligram Guillaume Apollinaire 1918 Preface to Matisse-Picasso exhibition, Paris Guillaume Apollinaire 1918 Letter (late summer) to Picasso Guillaume Apollinaire 1918 Letter (4 September) to Picasso Roger Allard 1919 Picasso's latest paintings 5. The twenties Andre Salmon 1920 Picasso Clive Bell 1920 Picasso as an intellectual artist Vauvrecy (Amedee Ozenfant) 1921 Picasso's language Vaclav Nebesky 1921 The nature of space in Picasso's work Vicenc Kramar 1922 Manes Gallery exhibition, Prague Vladimir Mayakovsky 1922 Picasso's studio Picasso 1923-4 Statement about art Andre Breton 1925 Picasso and Surrealism Josep Llorens Artigas 1925 Pau Ruiz Picasso Georgy Yakulov 1926 Picasso Oskar Schurer 1926 Picasso's classicism E. Teriade 1927 Picasso's quest Carl Einstein 1928 Picasso: the last decade Sebastia Gasch 1928 Picasso Max J. Friedlander 1929 On style and manner Andre Schaeffner 1930 The man with the clarinet Leon Pierre-Quint 1930 Doubt and revelation in the work of Picasso 6. The thirties Waldemar George 1931 Picasso's 50th birthday and the death of still life Carl G. Jung 1932 Picasso Will Grohmann 1932 Dialectic and transcendence in Picasso's work Carles Capdevila 1934 Picasso at the Barcelona Museum Salvador Dali 1935 Invitation to the Picasso exhibition, Barcelona Juli Gonzalez 1935 From Paris Paul Eluard 1935 I speak of what is right Andre Breton 1935 Picasso poet Eugeni d'Ors 1936 Open letter to Picasso Christian Zervos 1937 On Guernica Jose Bergamin 1937 The Mystery Trembles: Picasso Furioso Herbert Read 1938 Picasso's Guernica Roland Penrose (1937) The Woman Weeping Andre Lhote 1939 Picasso's reputation 7. World War II and after Wyndham Lewis 1940 On Guernica Jaime Sabartes (1939) A new portrait Brassai (1939) On Sabartes' portrait Harriet Sidney Janis (1942) On Dora Maar's portrait Brassai (1943) Conversations with Picasso Georges Limbour 1944 Picasso at the Autumn Salon Harriet Sidney Janis (1944) Picasso's studio John Pudney 1944 Picasso -- A Glimpse in Sunlight Jerome Seckler 1945 Picasso Explains Francoise Gilot (1946) On La Femme Fleur Tristan Tzara 1947-8 Picasso and the knowledge of space Rene Gaffe 1947-8 Picasso a sculptor? Willy Boers 1947-8 Lithographs by Picasso Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1948) Talking to Picasso Francoise Gilot (1949) Aragon and the Dove Ilya Ehrenburg (1948-56) Picasso and peace Andre Breton 1961 80 carats... with a single flaw Maurice Raynal 1952 Picasso's revelation 8. The last twenty years Rosamond Bernier 1955 Picasso on Altdorfer Helene Parmelin (1955) Concerning Lola de Valence Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1955) Conversations about the Femmes d'Alger Michel Leiris 1959 Picasso and Las Meninas by Velazquez Lionel Prejger 1961 Picasso cuts out iron Georges Sadoul 1961 Picasso as a film-director Roland Penrose (1963) A monument for Chicago Roland Penrose 1968 Some recent drawings by Picasso Roberto Otero (1968) On Suite 347 Brassai 1971 The master at 90 Pierre Daix 1973 The last exhibition at Avignon Brassai Edouard Pignon Picasso on death Postscript John Richardson 1980 Picasso: a retrospective view Abbreviations Index