“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 ...

John Richardson, the British-born art historian and curator who devoted more than a quarter century to writing a monumental four-volume biography of Pablo Picasso, died Tuesday at his home in ...

“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 ...

"Dream of the Rarebit Fiend" collects the 1904-1913 cartoons of Winsor McCay, who went on to greater fame with his Little Nemo in Slumberland strips. Image from "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend" Book sales ...

Forty-five years after Pablo Picasso’s death, the artist’s lasting impact on the art world can be seen in exhibitions, the ever-escalating art market and a biography by his grandson Olivier Widmaier ...

On the evening of May 9, Berluti opened the doors of its Rodeo Drive boutique for a special party in honor of the writer Olivier Picasso and his new biography of his grandfather Pablo. Guests ...

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 ...

John Richardson’s A Life of Picasso Volume IV: The Minotaur Years 1933–1943 (Cape) dominated reviews this weekend alongside notable titles in fiction including Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & ...

Note the article: This is "a" life, not "the" life of Picasso (1881-1973). That refusal of the magisterial -- a word already used by critics to describe this ongoing biography -- is honest and ...