The Art of Rivalry at Harvard Book Store

Harvard Book Store welcomes Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic for the Boston Globe Sebastian Smee for a discussion of his latest book, The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art, the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon—whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights.

“Beautifully written . . . This ambitious and impressive work is an utterly absorbing read about four important relationships in modern art.” —Publishers Weekly