In the year 1992, the antique dealer Madame Claudel buys a mysterious unsigned painting in a Parisian market. After many inquiries she thinks it could be the missing Don Tancredo that Picasso painted in 1901 for his first exhibit in France. But it has to be authenticated by Picasso’s daughter, Maya. The canvas would ultimately become a tribute by the master to his close friend Casagemas, who had committed suicide shortly before in Paris, and it would mark the beginning of the artist’s blue period.

Fascinating fiction based on real facts, this book is a work of vibrant investigation, a shrewd radiography of the art market worldwide and its intricacies as well as an exciting journey through time up to the bohemian Paris of the early 20th Century.