“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 ...

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pablo Picasso, The Sculptor (1931) in "It's Pablo-matic." Photo by Ben Davis. To read Part 1 of “It’s Hannah-matic,” click here. Art museums, incidentally, do have a problem with over-romanticizing ...