A Life of Picasso I: The Prodigy

A Life of Picasso I: The Prodigy PDF

Author: John Richardson

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2007-10-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 037571149X

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From the foremost Picasso scholar, the first volume of his Life of Picasso draws on Richardson's close friendship with Picasso, his own diaries, the collaboration of Picasso's widow Jacqueline, and unprecedented access to Picasso's studio and papers to arrive at a profound understanding of the artist and his work. Combining meticulous scholarship with irresistible narrative appeal, this definitive biography of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century details the years 1881-1906, from Picasso's beginnings in Spain to age twenty-five in Paris. With more than 800 extraordinary black-and-white illustrations.

A Life of Picasso Volume II

A Life of Picasso Volume II PDF

Author: John Richardson

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-09-30

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 1448112524

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John Richardson draws on the same combination of lively writing, critical astuteness, exhaustive research, and personal experience which made a bestseller out of the first volume and vividly recreates the artist's life and work during the crucial decade of 1907-17 - a period during which Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque invented Cubism and to that extent engendered modernism. Richardson has had unique access to untapped sources and unpublished material. By harnessing biography to art history, he has managed to crack the code of cubism more successfully than any of his predecessors. And by bringing a fresh light to bear on the artist's often too sensationalised private life, he has succeeded in coming up with a totally new view of this paradoxical man of his paradoxical work. Never before has Picasso's prodigious technique, his incisive vision and not least his sardonic humour been analysed with such clarity.

A Life of Picasso

A Life of Picasso PDF

Author: John Richardson

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 1845951557

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The first volume of John Richardson's extraordiinary biography of Picasso

A Life of Picasso III: The Triumphant Years

A Life of Picasso III: The Triumphant Years PDF

Author: John Richardson

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2008-12-24

Total Pages: 657

ISBN-13: 030749649X

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The third volume of Richardson’s magisterial Life of Picasso, a groundbreaking contribution to our understanding of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. Here is Picasso at the height of his powers in Rome and Naples, producing the sets and costumes with Cocteau for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, and visiting Pompei where the antique statuary fuel his obsession with classicism; in Paris, creating some of his most important sculpture and painting as part of a group that included Braque, Apollinaire, Miró, and Breton; spending summers in the South of France in the company of Gerald and Sara Murphy, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald. These are the years of his marriage to the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova—the mother of his only legitimate child, Paulo—and of his passionate affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter, who was, as well, his model and muse.

A Life of Picasso Volume III

A Life of Picasso Volume III PDF

Author: John Richardson

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 1845951298

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The author introduces material on the artist's early training in religious art, and establishes his passion for Barcelona and Catalan "modernisme". There are also portraits of Apollinaire, Max Jacob and Gertrude Stein who made up "The Picasso Gang". The book won the 1991 Whitbread biography award.

A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917

A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 PDF

Author: John Richardson

Publisher: Random House (NY)

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13:

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A three-volume study of the life and work of Pablo Picasso captures the artist from his early life in Málaga and Barcelona, through his revolutionary Cubist period, to the height of his talent in prewar Europe.

A Life of Picasso Volume III

A Life of Picasso Volume III PDF

Author: John Richardson

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-09-30

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 1448112532

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Drawing on exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, John Richardson has produced the long-awaited third volume of the definitive biography, full of original, groundbreaking new insights into Picasso's life and work. His lively and incisive analysis of the work meshes seamlessly with the rich and detailed narrative of this complex and sensual life. The Triumphant Years reveals Picasso at the height of his powers, producing not only the costumes and sets for such Diaghilev Ballets Russes productions as Parade and Tricorne but some of his most important sculpture and paintings. These are tumultuous years, Picasso torn between marital respectability with Olga, the Russian ballerina who was his first wife, and the erotic passion of his mistress, Marie-Therese. This extraordinary biography ends with the completion of a dramatic series of drawings of the crucifixion. From then on the horrors of war would replace any private horrors, leading ultimately to Picasso's masterpiece, Guernica.

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