Sacred monsters, sacred masters : Beaton, Capote, Dalí, Picasso, Freud, Warhol, and more / John Richardson

Includes index.

Machine generated contents note: BETWEEN THE WARS -- Picasso's Other Mother 3 -- The Madness of Scofield Thayer19 -- Beastly Dr. Barnes29 -- Sibyl Colefax, Lion Hunter43 -- Bonnard's Amphibious Wife53 -- The Sad Case of Mr. Taste 65 -- The Stettheimer Dollhouse73 -- MIDCENTURY -- The Sitwells83 -- Mario Praz's Kindly Eye105 -- Vita's Muddles 113 -- Killer Collector 125 -- Klee's Inheritance145 -- Peggy Guggenheim's Bed157 -- AFTERMATH -- Beaton and Garbo 169 -- Mir6, the Reluctant Surrealist181 -- From James to Jan191 -- Carlos de Beistegui, the Miserly Magnifico 203 -- Judy Chicago's Giant Shriek 213 -- A C6t6 Capote 225 -- Braque's Late Greatness237 -- FIN DE SIECLE -- Warhol at Home 247 -- Anthony Hopkins's Stab at Picasso261 -- Hammer Nailed 269 -- Dalfs Gala291 -- Brice Marden's Hidden Assets 303 -- Nina Kandinsky's Deadly Diamonds315 -- Lucian Freud and His Models 323 -- In Memory of Pablito Picasso 343.