Wh richardson biography of picasso

In the early s Richardson moved to New York, where he was appointed head of Christie's US operation, and eventually became a full-time writer and editor. The first volume of A Life of Picasso, covering the yearswas published in and won the Whitbread Prize. The second volume of A Life of Picasso, covering the yearswas published in Essays and reporting [ edit ].

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ISSN Retrieved 8 March His lively and incisive analysis of the work meshes seamlessly with the rich and detailed narrative of this complex and sensual life. The Triumphant Years reveals Picasso at the height of his powers, producing not only the costumes and sets for such Diaghilev Ballets Russes productions as Parade and Tricorne but some of his most important sculpture and paintings.

These are tumultuous years, Picasso torn between marital respectability with Olga, the Russian ballerina who was his first wife, and the erotic passion of his mistress, Marie-Therese. This extraordinary biography ends with the completion of a dramatic series of drawings of the crucifixion. From then on the horrors of war would replace any private horrors, leading ultimately to Picasso's masterpiece, Guernica.

It was during this time that Picasso began writing surrealist poetry and became obsessed with the image of himself as the mythic Minotaur. Gift of Bernard Ruiz-Picasso. Volume 4 examines the decade from toa period full of tensions, crises and aesthetic discoveries for the artist. The title chosen by Richardson refers to the prints depicting the human and animal figure which Picasso borrowed from Greek mythology for his iconographic repertoire and translated visually into an embodiment of desire, an expression of aggression or guilt, joyfully humanised or with the violence of a menacing animal.

Most biographers usually date this new awareness to the bombing of Guernica inbut Richardson proposes an alternative interpretation of the events, establishing his drawing The Death of Marat of — a free allusion to the exceptional painting by the French painter Jacques-Louis David — as a unique precedent for the repertoire surrounding Guernica.

Illustrated book published as a folder : etching and sugar-lift aquatint on copperplate, printed on paper,