Survivre à Picasso : Film nineteen : typescript of a screenplay / screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

Small script of 111 leaves heavily annotated by James Ivory throughout. With one page of notes, one ticket stub for a performance by the Bill T. Jones -Arnie Zane Dance Company at the Joyce Theater (22 June 1996), and a blank notepad (7 pages) from the Beverly Hills Hotel laid in. Also with two postcards depicting artwork by Pablo Picasso stapled to the interior covers. Title page reads "Film Nineteen Screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala."Survivre à Picasso" has been added in ink in an unknown hand in upper margin. Title page also includes the typed notes: "Revised 3rd Draft Monday 11th September" and "1st Revision Pink." Script is in English.
With a note in James Ivory's hand adhered to the upper cover: "Surviving Picasso."
Surviving Picasso was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based on the book Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Huffington; the film was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant for Merchant Ivory Productions; it was released in the United States in September 1996.
Part of a collection of film director James Ivory's heavily annotated shooting scripts, editing notebooks, and small scripts. Each of the thirty-one films he directed for Merchant Ivory Productions is represented in the collection, beginning with the production company's first film, The Householder (1963), and including, among others, The Europeans (1979), A Room with A View (1985), Howards End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993), The Golden Bowl (2000), and The City of Your Final Destination (2010). The collection also includes two films directed by Ivory's partner, Ismail Merchant (In Custody (1994) and The Mystic Masseur (2002)). Items in the collection have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.