It is said that men become artists so that they can persuade attractive young women - or in some cases men - to take their clothes off. It is also said that the artist and his or her muse are frequently lovers. So what really made Picasso, Gauguin and Augustus John so insatiable? Why is the Mona Lisa smiling? Does it have anything to do with Leonardo? Who was the prostitute that Van Gogh gave his severed ear to? What did Gaugin do with all those naked brown-skinned Tahitian girls? And why did Picasso, with his famously abstract style, need to fill his studio with pretty young nude models? Did they give him inspiration or perspiration? Turning the easel on many great artists, Cawthorne's portraits give more than an impression or abstract view of their sex lives.
- ISBN10 1853755443
- ISBN13 9781853755446
- Publish Date 1 July 2004 (first published 21 September 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Welbeck Publishing Group
- Imprint Prion Books Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English