Part One: 1909-44 1. Origins and Upbringing, 1909-26 2. Educated Abroad: Berlin and Paris, 1926-28 3. A Brief Apprenticeship, 1928-33 4. 'Insufficiently Surreal', 1933-39 5. A Vision Without Veils, 1939-44 Part Two: 1944-63 6. Father Figures and Crucifixions, 1944-46 7. Towards Other Shores, 1946-50 8. Hounded by Furies, 1950-54 9. Truth Told by a Lie, 1954-58 10. Recognition at Home: The Tate Retrospective, 1958-63 Part Three: 1963-92 11. 'A Brilliant Fool Like Me', 1963-69 12. All the Honours of Paris, 1969-72 13. Elegy for the Dead, 1972-75 14. 'My Exhilarated Despair', 1975-81 15. Alone in the Studio, 1981-84 16. 'The Greatest Living Painter', 1984-92
