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A Life of Picasso: 1907-17: Painter of Modern Life v. 2

A Life of Picasso: 1907-17: Painter of Modern Life v. 2

by JohnRichardson (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

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Synopsis

The first volume of this biography emphasized Picasso's Spanish roots from Malaga to Barcelona. This second volume covers ten pivotal years of Picasso's life. It describes his relationship with Cocteau, his affair with Fernande Olivier, and the influence of women on his art.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 512
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 23 Oct 1997
ISBN 10: 071267358X
ISBN 13: 9780712673587
Book Overview: The second volume of Richardson's authoritative and bestselling biography of Picasso

Author Bio
John Richardson was born in London in 1924. He studied art at the Slade School but soon gave up painting for art criticism. In 1949 he moved to France, where he lived for the next twelve years, befriending Picasso, Braque, Leger, and Cocteau. In the early 1960s Richardson moved to New York, where he was appointed head of Christie's US operation, and eventually became a full-time writer and editor. He has published books on Manet and Braque and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. The first volume of A Life of Picasso, covering the years 1881-1906, was published in 1991 and won the Whitbread Prize. The second volume of A Life of Picasso, covering the years 1907-1917, was published in 1996. In 1993 Richardson was made a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. In 1994-95 he served as the Slade Professor of Art at Oxford. Currently he divides his time between Connecticut and New York City, where is working on the third and fourth volumes of A Life of Picasso.