“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 ...

In this, the third installment of John Richardson’s epic biography of Picasso, we find that the artist, age 36, having been spurned by two mistresses to whom he’d proposed marriage, has fled wartime ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Much of “Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man” is a shameless, cut-and- paste job. Norman Mailer has mixed reams of copy from other writers into his own pungent prose in this idiosyncratic yet ...

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 ...