This is a story about rivalry among artists. Not the kind of rivalry that grows out of hatred and dislike but rather rivalry that emerges from admiration friendship love. The kind of rivalry that existed between Degas and Manet Picasso and Matisse Pollock and de Kooning and Freud and Bacon. These were some of the most famous and creative relationships in the history of art driving each individual to heights of creativity and inspiration and provoking them to despair jealousy and betrayal. Mati