The Man Who Painted Women

Rafael Pizarro Guadiana is one of the world's greatest living painters.

At the age of seventy, a disaster robs him of his one source of inspiration: women. For the first time in almost sixty years, he is unable to paint.

He decides to write. To examine his life for the source of the problem. From his beginnings as a goat herd in western Spain, to his debut in the Paris of the 1930s as Picasso's protege, to his final self-imposed exile on a Mediterranean island.

He writes candidly and without remorse of his erotic encounters and failures; of the betrayals and cruelty of a life spent in an obsessive search for what women have - and he wants.

As he writes about the past, the present is closing in. The women of the village are turning on him. Or are these only phantoms - further symptoms of his decline?

The Man Who Painted Women charts a dangerous journey to its haunting conclusion.