Formatted Contents Note: The weakling of the family, 1909-26 -- Educated abroad : Berlin and Paris, 1926-28 -- A brief apprenticeship, 1928-33 -- Insufficiently surreal, 1933-39 -- A vision without veils, 1939-44 -- Father figures and crucifixions, 1944-46 -- Towards other shores, 1946-50 -- Hounded by furies, 1950-54 -- Truth told by a lie, 1954-58 -- Recognition at home : the Tate retrospective -- A brilliant fool like me, 1963-69 -- All the honours of Paris, 1969-72 -- Elegy for the dead, 1972-75 -- My exhilarated despair, 1975-80 -- Alone in the studio, 1980-84 -- The greatest living painter, 1984-92.