These are the closing words in the fourth volume of Richardson’s mammoth biography of Picasso, and are the last we will have from him, for he died in 2019 at the age of 95. Maar’s confession is ...

“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 ...

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 & ...

Forty-five years after Pablo Picasso’s death, the artist’s lasting impact on the art world can be seen in exhibitions, the ever-escalating art market and a biography by his grandson Olivier Widmaier ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...