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John richardson picasso biography lesson

          “He was trying to outwit death,” the writer John Richardson said.!

          Lesson One of Picasso Bio: Don't Be a Muse!

        1. The author introduces material on the artist's early training in religious art, and establishes his passion for Barcelona and Catalan modernisme.
        2. “He was trying to outwit death,” the writer John Richardson said.
        3. Dive deep into John Richardson's A Life of Picasso with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion.
        4. The beautifully illustrated, long-awaited final volume of John Richardson's magisterial Life of Picasso, drawing on original research from interviews and never.

          5. John Richardson (art historian)

          American art historian (1924–2019)

          For other people with the same name, see John Richardson.

          Sir John Patrick Richardson, KBE, FBA (6 February 1924 – 12 March 2019) was a British art historian and biographer of Pablo Picasso.

          Richardson also worked as an industrial designer and as a reviewer for The New Observer.

          In 1952, he moved to Provence, where he became friends with Picasso, Fernand Léger and Nicolas de Staël. In 1960, he moved to New York and organized a nine-gallery Picasso retrospective.

          Came to read about Picasso's art; got a lesson in the author's political opinions.

          Christie's then appointed him to open their U.S. office, which he ran for the next nine years. In 1973 he joined New York gallery M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., as vice president in charge of 19th- and 20th-century painting, and later became managing director of Artemis, a mutual fund specializing in works of art.

          In 1980 he started devoting all his time to writing and working on his Picasso biography. He was also a contributor to The New