Published to accompany the exhibition at the National Gallery, London, Feb. 25-June 7, 2009.

Competition and collaboration : Picasso and the old masters / Elizabeth Cowling -- Picasso, 1895-1906 : 'Each influence transitory, taking flight as soon as caught' / Anne Robbins -- Something else entirely : Picasso and Cubism, 1906-1922 / Christopher Riopelle -- Return to a kind of order / Christopher Riopelle -- The sur-reality effect in the 1930s / Neil Cox -- Picasso's 'old master' period / Susan Grace Galassi -- Looking at the past to defy the present : Picasso's paintings, 1946-1973 / Simonetta Fraquelli.