“Of all the problems besetting Picasso in late 1932,” the fourth volume of John Richardson’s A Life of Picasso begins, “foremost was the misery of married life with his Russian wife Olga”. Unshielded ...

British art historian John Richardson, known for his multi-volume biography of Pablo Picasso, died today at age 95. A representative from Knopf, Richardson’s publisher, confirmed the news. The ...

On the evening of May 9, Berluti opened the doors of its Rodeo Drive boutique for a special party in honor of the writer Olivier Picasso and his new biography of his grandfather Pablo. Guests ...

John Richardson’s A Life of Picasso Volume IV: The Minotaur Years 1933–1943 (Cape) dominated reviews this weekend alongside notable titles in fiction including Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & ...

“Picasso used to be a great painter,” Georges Braque was fond of saying, only partly in jest. “Now he is merely a genius.” To remove the tired screens of celebrity and myth that concealed Picasso was ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Siri Hustvedt A LIFE OF PICASSO The Minotaur Years, 1933-1943 By John Richardson with the ...

John Richardson, the British-born art historian and curator who devoted more than a quarter century to writing a monumental four-volume biography of Pablo Picasso, died Tuesday at his home in ...

Pablo Picasso's “Blind Minotaur Guided by a Young Girl at Night,” Vollard Suite, 1935. (Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster; 2021 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York) Review ...

Note the article: This is "a" life, not "the" life of Picasso (1881-1973). That refusal of the magisterial -- a word already used by critics to describe this ongoing biography -- is honest and ...

Inspiration is where you find it — and for Herbert Sigüenza, it arrived one day in that crucible of creativity known as the dentist’s office. The actor-playwright and artist was just 7 years old when, ...

No matter what decade he happened to be in, John Richardson was an inspired and irreverent herald of an earlier time—and a font of gossip that was fresh right up to the minute. Best known for his ...