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Faber has acquired Sue Roe’s Hidden Portraits: The untold stories of six women who loved Picasso, a "reappraising history" of six women with whom Pablo Picasso shared his life.
Senior commissioning editor Fiona Crosby acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Jonathan Conway at Jonathan Conway Literary Agency, following a seven-way auction. Jill Bialosky at W W Norton bought North American rights from Zoë Pagnamenta at Calligraph, on behalf of Conway. Faber will publish the book in hardback in March 2025.
"Hidden Portraits shines a spotlight on the lives of Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Therese Walter, Dora Maar, Francoise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque," the synopsis says. "These six women were instrumental in Picasso’s life and career yet have often been dismissed as mere models or passive muses. All six were unconventional, independent and talented. And all six were severely tested, both by Picasso’s subterfuges and betrayals, and the wider social turbulence they lived through."
Roe said: "In Hidden Portraits I reveal why such self-assured and talented people loved and chose to live with Picasso. I have always admired Faber’s cool design style and incomparable editorial heritage, and I’ve loved working with Fiona and her team, and with Jonathan, Zoë and Jill."
Crosby added: "We’re delighted to be publishing the stories of these six extraordinary 20th century women, whose individual lives and influence on Picasso have been overlooked until now. Sue Roe looks beyond the myths and caricatures to get to the heart of their experiences, as well as brilliantly bringing to life the vivid worlds they inhabited from bohemian Montmartre to the glittering Riviera."