Aimee richardson biography of picasso

          According to his biographer, John Richardson, Picasso was so paradoxical that almost any statement made about him tends to be no less true in.!

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          About the Author

          John Richardson is the author of a memoir, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters, an essay collection; he also writes for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair.

          In 1995–96 he served as the Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University. He divides his time between Connecticut and New York City.

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          Pablo Picasso: His Life and Times.

        1. Autobiography, Picasso draws clear lines between the work and the life.
        2. According to his biographer, John Richardson, Picasso was so paradoxical that almost any statement made about him tends to be no less true in.
        3. When Françoise published her bestselling Life With Picasso in , the artist retaliated brutally by disinheriting the children, whom he had.
        4. In spring , I helped organize a memorial evening, John Richardson: Picasso Scholar and Art World Luminary, at International Foundation for.

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          Chapter 1: Rome and the Ballets Russes (1917) Picasso's visit to Rome in February 1917 had originally been conceived as a wedding trip, but at the last moment his on-again off-again mistress, Irène Lagut, who had promised to marry him, changed her mind, as her predecessor, Gaby Lespinasse, had done the year before.

          Instead of Irène, Jean Cocteau accompanied him. In a vain attempt to set himself at the head of the avant-garde, this ambitious young poet had inveigled Picasso into collaborating with him on Parade: a gimmicky, quasi-modernist ballet about the efforts of