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A Life of Picasso IV: the Minotaur Years - 1933-1943 by John Richardson
Category: Art and Design | Series: A\Life of Picasso Ser.
The beautifully illustrated fourth volume of Picasso's life--set in France and Spain during the Spanish Civil War and World War II--covers friendships with the surrealist painters; artistic inspiration around Guernica and the Minotaur; and his muses Marie-Thérèse, Dora Maar, and Françoise Gilot; and muc ...Show more
A Life of Picasso - The Prodigy, 1881-1906 by John Richardson; Marilyn McCully (As told to)
Category: Biography & Memoir
As he magnificently combines meticulous scholarship with irresistible narrative appeal, Richardson draws on his 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 o ...Show more
A Life of Picasso - The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson
Category: Art and Design
Now in paperback: the third volume of John Richardson's magisterial Life of Picasso.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 classici ...Show more
A Life of Picasso: Volume 1: 1881-1906 by John Richardson
Category: Art and Design | Series: Life of Picasso Ser.
A biography that establishes the complexity of Picasso's Spanish roots, his aversion to his native Malaga and his passion for Barcelona and Catalan 'modernisme'. It introduces material on the artist's early training in religious art. It provides fresh insights into the artistic failures of Picasso's fat ...Show more
A Life of Picasso: Volume 2: 1907-1917 by John Richardson
Category: Art and Design
Intends to recreate the Pablo Picasso's life and work during the decade of 1907-17 - a period during which the artist and Georges Braque invented Cubism and to that extent engendered modernism. Bringing a fresh light to bear on the artist's sensationalised private life, this title presents a view of thi ...Show more
A Life of Picasso : Volume 3: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932 by John Richardson with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully
Category: Art and Design
Drawing on exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, John Richardson has produced the long-awaited third volume of the definitive biography, full of original, groundbreaking new insights into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 seamle ...Show more
A Life of Picasso Volume 3 : The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson
Category: Art and Design
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 seamle ...Show more
A Life of Picasso Volume IV: The Minotaur Years: 1933-1943 by John Richardson
Category: Art and Design | Series: Life of Picasso Ser.
The beautifully illustrated fourth volume of Picasso's life - set in France and Spain during the Spanish Civil War and World War II - covers friendships with the surrealist painters; artistic inspiration around Guernica and the Minotaur; his muses Marie-Ther se, Dora Maar and Fran oise Gilot; and much m ...Show more
JENNY SAVILLE by RICHARDSON JOHN
Category: Art
Jenny Saville has been recognized as one of the most thought-provoking and technically accomplished talents of her generation, known for her monumental paintings of fleshy nudes. Fascinated by the endless aesthetic and formal possibilities that the materiality of the human body offers, Jenny Saville rem ...Show more