These are the closing words in the fourth volume of Richardson’s mammoth biography of Picasso, and are the last we will have from him, for he died in 2019 at the age of 95. Maar’s confession is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sue Roe explores the agency and victories her subjects experienced as women who, we are repeatedly reminded, ardently loved ...

I’ve been posting in recent days about Volume III of John Richardson’s Picasso biography. Here’s part of a conversation I had last week with Richardson himself. I’ll put this up in two installments.