A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years (1917–1932), by John Richardson
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 @ 7:00 pm
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue
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Join the author John Richardson as he speaks about A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932, the long-awaited third volume of his biography of Pablo Picasso. This book, which combines the critical astuteness, exhaustive research and stunning narrative that characterized the first two volumes of this definitive work, covers a turbulent and prolific period in Picasso’s life, which culminated in his being acknowledged as the leader of the modern movement.
Born in 1924, Richardson studied art at the Slade School of Fine Art but gave up painting for art criticism. In 1949 he helped the collector Douglas Cooper transform the Château de Castille, near Avignon, into a private museum of Cubist painting. Over the next 12 years, he became friends with Picasso, Braque, Léger and Cocteau. With Picasso’s encouragement, he embarked on an analytic study of the artist’s portraits, part of which is incorporated into the present biography.
John Richardson is the author of a memoir, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; an essay collection, Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters; and books on Manet and Braque. He has written for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. He was instrumental in setting up Christie’s in the United States. In 1993 he was made a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. 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.
