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- Life with Picasso. by Carlton Lake & Françoise Gilot. Picasso encourages us to consider seeing his art as a mirror of his incredibly prolific life. The Musée National Picasso in Paris alone contains 300 paintings and 300 sculptures out from a total of 5000 works donated to the French State.
- Pablo. by Clement Oubrerie & Julie Birmant. Picasso’s Head of a Woman at Tate Modern, a raw portrait of his lover Fernande Olivier, seems infused with their passionate relationship.
- A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 (Vol 3) by John Richardson. From his earliest creative years, Picasso’s circle reads like a pantheon of 20th century artistic greats.
- Gertrude Stein on Picasso. by Gertrude Stein. Aside from artists, Picasso rubbed shoulders with many other 20th century luminaries, who were drawn into his entourage by his charisma and wit.
Mar 17, 1994 · Patrick O'Brian's outstanding biography of Picasso is here available in paperback for the first time. It is the most comprehensive yet written, and the only biography fully to appreciate the distinctly Mediterranean origins of Picasso's character and art.
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- Life with Picasso, by Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake. Artist Françoise Gilot, who died this past June at 101, is famous for being the only Picasso “muse” to walk out on him.
- A Life of Picasso: The Prodigy, 1881–1906, by John Richardson. John Richardson’s four-volume biography of the artist runs more than 1,800 pages and was initially expected to be even longer: Richardson died in 2019, before he could write the planned fifth and final book.
- A Life of Picasso: The Cubist Rebel, 1907–1916, by John Richardson. The second book in Richardson’s famed multivolume Picasso biography kicks off with the making of a truly great work, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, and ends with the artist beginning his transition away from the mode he helped usher in with it.
- A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932, by John Richardson. Richardson’s third book in his four-part Picasso biography is the one most focused on the artist’s social life, with much of its 500-plus pages given to digressions about figures like Olga Khokhlova, a ballet dancer who became the artist’s wife, and Jean Cocteau, a poet whose attempts to infiltrate the French avant-garde were not always successful.
Jan 1, 2001 · Patrick O'Brian's outstanding biography of Picasso is here available in paperback for the first time. It is the most comprehensive yet written, and the only biography fully to appreciate the distinctly Mediterranean origins of Picasso's character and art.
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May 31, 2012 · A scholarly, passionate and brilliantly-written biography of Pablo Picasso by Patrick O’Brian, the famous author of the much-loved Aubrey-Maturin series, reissued in a stunning new cover....
Mar 27, 2009 · This biography defines his greatness: his accomplishment and versatility as a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, ceramicist, and designer. Most of the innovations in twentieth century art are associated not only with his work but with the legend he built of himself as the quintessential modern artist.
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Jan 6, 2022 · John Richardson, who died in 2019, set the standard for modern artists’ biographies (and we are living through a golden age of the genre) with the first three volumes of his Pablo Picasso ...
