Secrets d histoires picasso biography
Beautiful, tender, and at times grotesque, the paintings and sculpture of this Spanish-born artist mesmerize art lovers of all ages..
Uncovering Picasso’s Secrets
John Richardson, who has written hundreds of thousands of words about the life and art of Pablo Picasso in the last 50 years, is still making discoveries about the artist.
“As I get older and older, I get more and more astonished the deeper I get into his work,” Richardson told me recently.
A very honest account of life with Pablo Picasso on Françoise Gilot's classic memoir of time with a "great man.".
He is completing the fourth and final volume of his highly acclaimed biography, A Life of Picasso, which is scheduled to be published by Knopf in 2014. It will cover the years from 1933 until Picasso’s death in 1973.
The first volume, The Prodigy, 1881– 1906, was published in 1991.
It was followed by The Cubist Rebel, 1907– 1916 in 1996 and The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 in 2007.
Last spring, Richardson cocurated a Picasso show at the Gagosian Gallery in New York with Françoise Gilot, Picasso’s mistress and the mother of their children, Claude Picasso and Paloma Picasso.
Richardson is an international advis