"With this memoir of poignant photographs, David Douglas Duncan has now completed a twenty-year long series of intimate works on a near-legendary neighbour, Picasso ... This final book is a photographic tour de force -- there are no captions -- in which Duncan takes us on a personally conducted visit to Picasso's last studio-home in Mougins, on the French Riviera ... The Silent Studio contains all of the canvases Pablo Picasso painted of Jacqueline and gave to her (seen together only in this book), including probably the most haunting portrait of the twentieth century." --