"Picasso: Chapter Five" is the fifth episode in the second season of Genius. It is the fifteenth episode overall.
Plot Summary[]
After the French critics denounce all the artists who submitted their work at the Autumn Salon as Matisse imitators, Pablo meets the man himself and is challenged by his radical genius. For years, the two artists try to outdo each other, urged on by brother and sister art collecting duo Leo and Gertrude Stein. When attempts with his first love, Fernande Olivier fail, Pablo seeks inspiration from the primitive African masks at Trocadero Museum and creates Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. In 1947, Pablo convinces Françoise to move in with him.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Antonio Banderas as Pablo Picasso
- Clémence Poésy as Françoise Gilot
- Alex Rich as Young Pablo Picasso
- Samantha Colley as Dora Maar
Guest Starring[]
- T.R. Knight as Max Jacob
- Aisling Franciosi as Fernande Olivier
- Seth Gabel as Guillaume Apollinaire
- Tracee Pallero as Gertrude Stein
- Iddo Goldberg as Leo Stein
- Andrew Buchan as Henri Matisse
- Kerr Logan as Georges Braque
- Sebastian Roché as Emile Gilot
- Keith Allen as Sagot
- Catherine Hubeau as Grandma Renoult
- Stéphane Caillard as Geneviève Aliquot
- Bruno Paviot as Marcel
- Jack Brett Anderson as Géry Pieret